Daniels v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
748 F.2d 229 · 1984
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably Daniels v. Williams (1986), Haygood v. Younger (1985)
20 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Parratt v. Taylor · Paul v. Davis · Hudson v. Palmer · Baker v. McCollan
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no claim of any substantive due process violation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“negligent injury to the plaintiff's person is not a protectable liberty interest under the due process clause....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to decide whether mere negligence will support a claim for relief under § 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Daniels v. Williams
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.