Wilcox v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
691 F.2d 739 · 1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2023
6 federal appellate ·
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 Younger v. Harris · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Quern v. Jordan · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would seem to challenge the validity of his conviction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pigott v. Vega
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.