Walker v. Wegner’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Monroe v. Pape · Elrod v. Burns · O'Shea v. Littleton · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in order to protect the public interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Wegner
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.