Williams v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 986 · 1986
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Lorenzo Montez v. Mark McKinna (2000), Garza v. Davis (2010)
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Bradenburg v. Beaman · Phillips v. Carey · Earl X. Smoake v. J. T. Willingham, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas · United States v. Steel
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Bureau of Prisons has established an administrative procedure through which an inmate may seek review of complaints relating to any aspect of his imprisonment,”
2 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.