Williams v. Kleppe’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 803 · 1976
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably William L. O'Brien v. Robert J. Digrazia (1976), Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United States Veterans Administration (1976)
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 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 16 U.S.C. § 459B · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Paul v. Davis · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Meyer v. State of Nebraska
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no rights of free speech can be said to have been involved here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.