Walker v. Epps’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.3d 407 · 2008
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Frame v. City of Arlington (2011), Smith v. Regional Transit Authority (2016)
13 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · Rizzo v. Goode · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. · Marsh v. Chambers
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is plain, however, that die Court, in directing courts in each state to select 'the one most appropriate statute of limitations for all § 1983 claims,' made no exception in Wilson for § 1983 actions that seek only equitable relief.”
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.