Gill v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 537 · 1996
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably O'Rourke v. City of Providence (2001), United States of America v. George Varoudakis (2000)
17 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · Corallo v. United States · Verderber v. Cantello Plumbing Corp. · West Virginia State Department of Tax & Revenue v. Internal Revenue Service
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to the admissibility of the [prior] conviction[ ] for this appeal, [he] should have refrained from offering the evidence himself, waited to see if [Williams] introduced [it] ..., and if so, objected then. In sum, [Wilson's] own action of offering the ... evidence himself rendered it admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Williams“cannot rely solely on his in limine objection to preserve the evidentiary issue for appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“] may have been a wise tactical decision, as a consequence, [the plaintiff]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Williams
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.