Williams v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
728 F.2d 721 · 1984
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2013 · most notably O'CONNOR v. Ortega (1987), Elliott v. Perez (1985)
48 federal appellate · 3 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Butz v. Economou
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the action of the federal official bear some reasonable relation to and connection with his duties and responsibilities ...,' " Claus v. Gyorkey, 674 F.2d at 431, quoting Scherer v. Brennan, 379 F.2d 609 , 611 (7th Cir.1967), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 1021, 88 S.Ct. 592, 19 L.Ed.2d 666 (1967), and that the action of the official is connected with a "discretionary function.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ederal officials enjoy absolute immunity from common law tort liability for actions within the scope of their authority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“entitlement to immunity is sufficiently free of fact questions as to present a question of law.”
2 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.