Williams v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
624 F.2d 695 · 1980
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2015 · most notably Parratt v. Taylor (1981), Samples v. City of Atlanta (1988)
74 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Monroe v. Pape · Paul v. Davis · Imbler v. Pachtman · Baker v. McCollan
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... such factors as the need for the application of force, the relationship between the need and the amount of force that was used, the extent of injury inflicted, and whether force was applied in a good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'to raise an ordinary tort by a government agent to the stature of a violation of the Constitution.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficiently egregious as to be 'constitutionally' tortious”
2 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.