Williams v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 667 · 1977
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 21 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Wilson v. Garcia (1985), Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle (2002)
33 federal appellate · 21 district · 7 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Mills v. Alabama
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is designed to protect defendants against the prosecution of stale claims and to protect the courts from having to decide the merits of such claims when the plaintiff has slept on his rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“various prayers for relief, including ... punitive damages, most certainly do - not themselves give rise to separate 'causes of action’ ”); Maxineau v. City of N.Y., No. 11-CV-2657, 2013 WL 3093912 , at (E.D.N.Y. June 18, 2013) (Vitaliano, J.) (noting that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a situation or state of facts which entitles a party to sustain an action and gives him the right to seek judicial interference on his behalf.”
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.