Wilson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 870 · 1996
Citation profile
26 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Knox v. State of Indiana (1996), Payne Hicks v. Churchich (1998)
26 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
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Bell v. Wolfish · Tennessee v. Garner · Whitley v. Albers · Hudson v. McMillian
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'considering all the instructions, the evidence and the arguments,' it appears that 'the jury was misled ... [and its] understanding of the issues was seriously affected to the prejudice of the complaining party.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this review we avoid fastidiousness and inquire only whether the correct message was conveyed to the jury reasonably well.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the appropriate analytical lens through which facts are to be viewed,'”
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.