Walker v. Rowe’s Empirical Analysis
791 F.2d 507 · 1986
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 4 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Collins v. City of Harker Heights (1992), Archie v. City of Racine (1988)
62 federal appellate · 4 district · 17 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
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Kentucky v. Graham · Daniels v. Williams · Paul v. Davis · Hudson v. Palmer
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The constitution requires the state to grant”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the constitution no more assures a safe job than it does a job with a generous salary”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]hese cases are based on the principle that when the state takes someone into its care or cuts off sources of private aid, the state must afford replacement protection. So when the state imprisons a person and prevents his ambling down to the family physician, the state must provide some medical care. When the state arrests the adult having custody of a child, the state had better take care of the child. White v. Rochford, 592 F.2d 381 (7th Cir.1979). Sometimes we shorten this inquiry to a search for a “special relationship” between the state and the person to be protected. Ellsworth v. City of Racine, 774 F.2d 182, 185 (7th Cir.1985), cert. denied, [— U.S. -,] 106 S.Ct. 1265 [, 89 L.Ed.2d 574 ] (1986). Whatever the name, the rationale lies in constraints the state imposes on private action.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.