Wilson v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
733 F.2d 1539 · 1984
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 9 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Rode v. Dellarciprete (1988), Ancata v. Prison Health Services, Inc. (1985)
66 federal appellate · 9 district · 10 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Carey v. Piphus · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] state violates the [F]ourteenth [A]mendment when it seeks to interfere with the social relationship of two or more people.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do not hold that a law enforcement officer may never be fired because of associations with others.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“ch[o]se not to render an advisory opinion on what conduct would be sufficient for termination of a police officer who associates with certain felons, indicted individuals, suspects, or their relatives.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.