Williams v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.2d 1143 · 1977
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Burgos v. Hopkins (1994), Gelb v. Royal Globe Insurance (1986)
87 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 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
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Morrissey v. Brewer · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an issue not essential to the prior judgment may not have been afforded the careful deliberation and analysis normally applied to essential issues,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“disclosure to the parolee of evidence against him”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is the manner of parole decision-making, not its outcome, that is challenged, appellant does not present a complaint of the sort in Preiser v. Rodriguez ... for which habeas corpus would be appropriate”
3 later decisions 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.