Willie v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
732 F.2d 383 · 1984
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Daly v. Hill (1986), Plyler v. Evatt (1990)
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 20 U.S.C. § 1411 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Barber v. Kimbrell'S, Inc. · Anderson v. Morris
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny duty to litigate arose ... from a failure on the part of counsel to formulate a consent judgment that clearly and unambiguously defined the plaintiff class.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he issue before the district court was the proper construction of a disputed provision in a consent judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“counsel w[ere] not totally effective in formulating language that was self-executing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.