Wilks v. Reyes’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.3d 412 · 1993
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Morales v. City of San Rafael (1996), Acumed LLC v. Advanced Surgical Services, Inc. (2009)
25 federal appellate · 2 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Farrar v. Hobby · Hudson v. McMillian · Peer International Corp. v. Pausa Records, Inc. · Peer International Corp. v. Pausa Records, Inc. · Floyd v. Laws
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appeal is considered frivolous if the result is obvious or the appellant's arguments are wholly without merit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law of this circuit entitles a plaintiff to an award of nominal damages if the defendant violated the plaintiff's constitutional right . . . even if the plaintiff suffered no actual damage.”
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.