Williams v. Alioto’s Empirical Analysis
625 F.2d 845 · 1980
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 10 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably 43 Cal. 3d 1281 - Maria P. v. Riles (1987), Westmoreland v. CBS, Inc. (1985)
101 federal appellate · 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Monroe v. Pape · Owen v. City of Independence · Hutto v. Finney · Maher v. Gagne
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“significant issue in litigation, which achieve(d) ... the benefit the parties sought in bringing suit.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not affect the fact that for the pertinent time period appellees obtained the desired relief.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Claims for attorneys' fees ancillary to the case survive independently ... and may be heard even though the underlying case has become moot.”
3 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.