Wolford v. Lasater’s Empirical Analysis
78 F.3d 484 · 1996
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Pierce v. Gilchrist (2004), Taylor v. Meacham (1996)
25 federal appellate · 15 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · Heck v. Humphrey · Albright v. Oliver · Riley v. National Federation of Blind of North Carolina, Inc.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as if the omitted information had been included”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the context of a government prosecution, the decision to prosecute which is motivated by a desire to discourage protected speech or expression violates the First Amendment and is actionable under § 1983.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beedle · Grubbs v. Bailes“Generally speaking, government action which chills constitutionally protected speech or expression contravenes the First Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poole v. County of Otero · Beedle
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.