White v. Olig’s Empirical Analysis
56 F.3d 817 · 1995
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Rodriguez v. Farrell (2002), William Brady and Theresa Brady v. Maryann Dill et al. (1999)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Baker v. McCollan · Carnegie v. United States · Hewitt v. Helms · Scharffe v. Perkins · Hill v. California
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is therefore a truism, reiterated many times by this court, that mere allegations of state law infraction are insufficient to support a Section 1983 claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A state ought to follow its law, but to treat a violation of state law as a violation of the [federal] Constitution is to make the federal government the enforcer of state law. State rather than federal courts are the appropriate institutions to enforce state rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. Howell
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.