Walker v. Prince George's County’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.3d 426 · 2009
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2024
7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pearson v. Callahan
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“engag[e] in the 'essentially academic exercise' of determining whether that right exists at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perry v. Spencer“fail[s] to present an argument to that effect-indeed, even to discuss those provisions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs.”
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.