Saye Et Al. v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2007 · most notably Busby v. City of Orlando (1991), Egger v. Phillips (1983)
52 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Wood v. Strickland · Arnett v. Kennedy · Parker v. Levy
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]iscipline is a necessary component of a smoothly-operating police force. Although this necessity of discipline does not rise to the same level as required by the military, ... discipline must be maintained among police officers during periods of active duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.