Williams v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
747 F.2d 1231 · 1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2007
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Bounds v. Smith · Hewitt v. Helms · Procunier v. Martinez · Medtronic, Inc. v. Gibbons
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prison regulation or practice that burdens an inmate's right of access 'must be weighed against the legitimate interests of penal administration and the proper regard that judges should give to the expertise and discretionary authority of correctional officials.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Melvin Leroy Tyler Frank Kevin Pool George Thorn Vincecca Vallard Jerry Jones Mark Hamilton Jack Morgan and McKinley Robinson v. Dr. Leroy Black and Donald Wyrick, Melvin Leroy Tyler Frank Kevin Pool George Thorn Vincecca Vallard Jerry Jones Mark Hamilton Jack Morgan and McKinley Robinson v. Dr. Leroy Black and Donald Wyrick · Murphy v. Dowd
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.