Williams v. Delo’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 442 · 1995
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Jackson v. Everett (1998), Guite v. Wright (1998)
23 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan · Wrenn v. Gould · Drake v. Scott
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'in the denial of the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'an excessive risk to inmate health or safety'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.