Walker v. Wayne County’s Empirical Analysis
850 F.2d 433 · 1988
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Woods v. City of Chicago (2000), Zuchel v. Spinharney (1989)
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 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 Darden v. Wainwright · Fryzel v. Cash Currency Exchange, Inc. · Martin v. John W. Stone Oil Distributor, Inc. · Williamson v. United States Department of Agriculture · Pink Supply Corp. v. Hiebert, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may consider only the portion of the submitted materials that is admissible or usable at trial”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a party fails to challenge hearsay evidence submitted to the court, the court does not commit error in considering such evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“without a showing of admissibility, a party may not rely on hearsay evidence to support or oppose [a summary judgment] motion.”
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.