Garcia v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
731 F.2d 640 · 1984
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 30 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Wilson v. Garcia (1985), Hall v. Bellmon (1991)
78 federal appellate · 30 district · 7 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp.
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an action for injury to personal rights,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]ll of the federal values at issue in selecting a limitations period for section 1983 claims are best served by articulating one uniform characterization describing the essential nature underlying all such claims.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he courts vary widely in the methods by which they characterize a section 1983 action, and in the criteria by which they evaluate the applicability of a particular state statute of limitations to a particular claim. The actual process used to select an appropriate state statute varies from circuit to circuit and sometimes from panel to panel.”
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.