Williams v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
496 F.3d 1210 · 2007
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Scherl v. Fisher · Nelson v. Campbell Commissioner Alabama Department of Corrections et al. · Hill v. McDonough · Banks v. Privonka · Clain v. International Steel Group
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]oth the State and the victim's family have a strong interest in the timely enforcement of [the defendant's] death sentence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowles v. Desantis“[e]ach delay, for its span, is a commutation of a death sentence to one of imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowles v. Desantis“too late to avoid the inevitable need for a stay of execution,”
1 later decision 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.