Williams v. Gorton’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 668 · 1976
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Geisler v. Petrocelli (1980), Jones v. Community Redevelopment Agency of Los AngeLes (1984)
20 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Barr v. Matteo · United Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Forman · Spalding v. Vilas
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the conduct complained of was engaged in under color of state law, and (2) the conduct subjected the plaintiff to the deprivation of rights, privileges, and immunities secured by the Constitution of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]efamation itself does not establish a cause of action under S 1983]. It is the deprivation of constitutional rights for which the[Civil Rights] Act creates a remedy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Conclusionary allegations, unsupported by facts, [will be] rejected as insufficient to state a claim under the Civil Rights Act.”
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.