Williams v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
836 F.2d 958 · 1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Lavespere v. Niagara Machine & Tool Works, Inc. (1990), Dixon v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. (1992)
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Balistrieri v. United States · Clark v. Tarrant County · Trevino v. Celanese Corp. · Barker v. Norman
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ha[ve] established [their] right to the judgment with such clarity that the nonmoving party cannot recover ... under any discernible circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no issue of material fact, and the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision 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.