Cole v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 280 · 1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Fireman's Fund Insurance v. AALCO Wrecking Co. · Brown ex rel. Brown v. Syntex Laboratories, Inc. · Goldsmith v. Diamond Shamrock Corp.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“argument [f]ails because the two [cases] are compatible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Pence
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.