Williams v. Vukovich’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 909 · 1983
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 10 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 211 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Vogel v. City of Cincinnati (1992), Donovan v. Robbins (1985)
79 federal appellate · 10 district · 11 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 211 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has a heavy burden of demonstrating that the decree is unreasonable.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“essentially a settlement agreement subject to continued judicial policing.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a final judicial order ... plac[ing] the power and prestige of the court behind the compromise struck by the parties.”
10 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.