Wilson v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2,222 federal appellate · 1,161 district · 560 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7,295 later decisions (79 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Albright v. Oliver (1994), Lampf, Pleva, Lipkind, Prupis & Petigrow v. Gilbertson (1991)
2,222 federal appellate · 1,161 district · 560 state decisions — followed in 44 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGarcia v. Wilson (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Monroe v. Pape · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Pierson v. Ray
Cited together with Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Owens v. Okure · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.
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 7,295 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When Congress has not established a time limitation for a federal cause of action, the settled practice has been to adopt a local time limitation as federal law if it is not inconsistent with federal law or policy to do so.”
236 later decisions quote this exact passage“Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc., 421 U.S. 454 , 462, 95 S.Ct. 1716, 1721, 44 L.Ed.2d 295 (1975), or the”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[g]eneral personal injury actions, sounding in tort.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.