Weaver v. Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis
650 F.2d 22 · 1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Michael Malik Allah v. Thomas Seiverling (2000), Ulmer v. Chancellor (1982)
15 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Warth v. Seldin · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Monroe v. Pape
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an inmate does not have standing to sue on behalf of his fellow prisoners”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mitchell v. Cuomo
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.