Williams v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.2d 296 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2002
10 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.
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 · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle · Owen v. City of Independence · City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Butler was delegated final policymaking authority concerning employment matters in the municipal court, and that he acted pursuant to that authority when he chose to discharge Williams for exercising her first amendment rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Butler“The City of Little Rock has always agreed with the plaintiffs' contention that defendant Butler is responsible for hiring and terminating his chief clerk and deputy clerks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Butler“it had always been traditional that the City of Little Rock left [assembling a court staff] up to the judges of the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Butler
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.