Williams v. Butz’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.2d 1335 · 1988
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2005
9 federal appellate · 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. § 1472 (Doug Bereuter Section 502 Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1480
Relies on Goldberg v. Kelly · United States v. Swift & Co. · System Federation No. 91 v. Wright · United States v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp. · Hutcheson v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the denial of its motion to modify a consent decree which required it to use only judicial proceedings to foreclose mortgages on homes purchased under the Rural Housing loan program of Section 502(a), Title V of the Housing Act of 1949, 42 U.S.C. § 1472 et seq.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brewer v. Madigan“the FmHA neither submitted evidence that the decree violated constitutional, statutory or decisional law, which would render it invalid, nor showed 'the kind of extreme, unexpected oppression and hardship which would justify modification of the Court's decree.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the job of a district court after Swift and United Shoe is to look at the particular facts and circumstances of the case to determine whether the modification satisfies the underlying purpose of the decree.”
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.