Sizemore v. Williford’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.2d 608 · 1987
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably McCormick v. City of Chicago (2000), Wilson v. Civil Town of Clayton (1988)
28 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Parratt v. Taylor · Hudson v. Palmer · Pell v. Procunier · Wolf-Lillie v. Sonquist
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Parratt is ... not applicable to instances where the substantive guarantees of the Constitution are alleged to be violated, as opposed to alleged violations of procedural due process.’ Thus, despite the government’s contrary assertions, the Separate and independent existence of [the prisoner’s] First Amendment claim is in no way affected, let alone precluded, by the availability of alternate procedural remedies fully adequate to afford Sizemore due process of law for a deprivation of personal property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the district court erred by narrowly considering Sizemore's complaint as nothing more than a procedural due process claim instead of also as a claim alleging substantive violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Dillman
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.