Daniels v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2,813 federal appellate · 1,363 district · 1,258 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10,272 later decisions (65 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Farmer v. Brennan (1994), County of Sacramento v. Lewis (1998)
2,813 federal appellate · 1,363 district · 1,258 state decisions — followed in 46 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
reviewedDaniels v. Williams (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Wolff v. McDonnell · Mapp v. Ohio · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor
Cited together with Parratt v. Taylor · Davidson v. Cannon · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Hudson v. Palmer · Harlow v. Fitzgerald
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 10,272 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“font of tort law to be superimposed upon whatever systems may already be administered by the States.”
107 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Sherrod v. Berry · Sharp v. Nibert“regardless of the fairness of the procedures used to implement them.”
97 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
88 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.