Haislah v. Walton’s Empirical Analysis
676 F.2d 208 · 1982
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Blackwell v. Sun Electric Corp. (1983), State v. White (2015)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Monroe v. Pape · Wood v. Strickland · Owen v. City of Independence
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“judge the charge as a whole and to affirm the jury verdict if, taken as a whole, [the charge] fairly presents the law as it applies to the case at hand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“implied that the absence of [police officer] Walton's liability meant that ... no constitutional violation has been committed.”
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.