Williams v. Liberty’s Empirical Analysis
461 F.2d 325 · 1972
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Ellis v. Dyson (1975), White v. Rochford (1979)
27 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Emich Motors Corporation v. General Motors Corporation · Basista v. Weir · Collum v. Butler · 295 F. Supp. 924 - Palma v. Powers
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“distinctly put in issue and directly determined”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e are unable to see why an officer who is attacked by a prisoner could not use more force than reasonably necessary in defending himself, and be subject to liability for the excessive force.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he jury's return of a guilty verdict against plaintiff on the criminal charge of resisting arrest is not 'necessarily' conclusive as to plaintiff's present claim of excessive force used by the police officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sullivan v. Gagnier
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.