Williams v. City of Dothan’s Empirical Analysis
745 F.2d 1406 · 1984
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Burton v. City of Belle Glade (1999), Barnes v. Southwest Forest Industries, Inc. (1987)
29 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1341
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Washington v. Davis · Castaneda v. Partida
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district courts shall not enjoin, suspend or restrain the assessment, levy or collection of any tax under state law where a plain, speedy and efficient remedy may be had in the courts of such state. 3”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an affirmative duty to provide to blacks their proportionate share of governmental services, employment, and rights of representation on city boards and commissions, in order to remedy the effects of past denial to blacks of access to the political process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“blanket authorization . . . to prohibit disclosure of information whenever it deems it advisable to do so, but is rather a grant of power to impose conditions on discovery in order to prevent injury, harassment, or abuse of the court's processes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adkins v. Christie
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.