Davis v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
598 F.2d 916 · 1979
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2024
8 federal appellate · 1 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 10 U.S.C. § 933 · 10 U.S.C. § 934 · 5 U.S.C. § 7501 (Civil Service Due Process Amendments)
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Buckley v. Valeo · Elrod v. Burns · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the municipal code has, on its face, at least some application to conduct that would be considered 'speech' under the first amendment. That impact cannot be dismissed as tangential or even minimal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trouble with the distinction between speech and conduct is that it has no real content.”
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.