White v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
649 F.2d 560 · 1981
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Ulmer v. Chancellor (1982), Rogers v. Bruntrager (1988)
33 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Harris v. Oklahoma · Ferri v. Ackerman · Gordon v. Leeke · Duchesne v. Sugarman · Spence v. Staras
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the defendants had directed themselves toward an unconstitutional action by virtue of a mutual understanding,' and [provide] some facts suggesting such a 'meeting of the minds.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Smith v. Bacon · Haley v. Dormire“[Conspiracies are by their nature usually clandestine. It is unlikely that a plaintiff in a conspiracy case will be able to provide direct evidence of a conspiratorial agreement. Thus, such evidence is not necessary to prove that a civil conspiracy existed. Accordingly, depending upon the conspiracy alleged in any particular case, the complainant may or may not be in a position to allege with precision the specific facts giving rise to the claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“state[d] sufficient facts to give rise to the inference that there was ... a meeting of the minds [, and a]coordingly, the district court erred by dismissing White's complaint for lack of specificity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Rickmyer v. Browne
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.