Walsh v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
733 F.2d 473 · 1984
Citation profile
30 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Benson v. Cady (1985), Meriwether v. Faulkner (1987)
30 federal appellate ·
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 Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Angrist v. United States · Julius Goldman's Egg City v. United States · Csaky v. Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill, Noyes, Inc. · Jones v. Diamond
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a serious problem of substantial dimensions,”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walsh v. Mellas · Holland v. Fisher“We defer to the trial court on issues of credibility absent clear error.” Walsh v. Brewer, 733 F.2d 473 , 477 (7th Cir.1984) (citation omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The [district] court stated: ‘Plaintiff does not suggest that Lee ever knew plaintiff was a Vice Lords target. The cause of the attack was unrelated to the 1973 Menard incident; Lee attacked Walsh, but not as a vengeful gang member.’ R. 79, at 5. The district court further ruled that prison officials would not have known that Lee was likely to attack Walsh for other reasons even if they had consulted Lee’s files. The court noted that Lee’s file showed that he had no history of assaultive behavior at Stateville. In addition, the court de- dined to assume that Lee’s psychological evaluation, which described him as ‘sullen, antagonistic, angry, dangerous, explosive, completely peer-oriented,’ would have alerted officials that Lee was more dangerous than many of the other inmates at the Stateville maximum security facility.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walsh v. Mellas
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.