Wilson v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 163 · 1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2006
13 federal appellate · 2 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Daniels v. Williams · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle · Wilson v. City of North Little Rock · 645 F. Supp. 890 - Clark v. City of Bridgeport
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we have strong doubts about whether Batson was intended to limit the use of peremptory challenges in civil cases”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“amounts to nothing more than [articulation of] a negligence standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. Walker
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.