Wilkinson v. Forst’s Empirical Analysis
832 F.2d 1330 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Dickerson ex rel. Davison v. Napolitano (2010), Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan v. Kerik (2004)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Terry v. Ohio · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Bell v. Wolfish
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendants are not contending that they have the right to conduct blanket searches at all political rallies or at all political rallies where violence is anticipated, or at all Klan rallies or functions. Rather, they maintain that when an organization with a historically demonstrable penchant for violence plans a rally which is to be attended by opposition groups who have historically clashed with the sponsoring organization, and public authorities obtain information that both sets of groups anticipate violence, those authorities, who have a duty to provide protection and maintain order at such rallies, may conduct pat-down searches of all those attending the rally.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“might consider in the future seeking area search warrants, as well as court orders prohibiting weapons at the rally site and authorizing searches in general terms, as outlined in Justice Powell’s concurring opinion in Almeida-Sanchez.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilkinson v. Forst“from liability for civil 13 damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly 14 established statutory or constitutional rights of which a 15 reasonable person would have known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Schult
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.