Williams v. Armontrout’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 377 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2014
11 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Hewitt v. Helms · Nash v. Black · Wilson v. Iowa · Albers v. Ralston
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does a statute, regulation, or official policy pronouncement contain particular substantive standards or criteria that significantly guide the decision makers”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burgin v. Nix“does the statute, regulation, or official policy pronouncement use mandatory language requiring the decision makers to act in a certain way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burgin v. Nix“contain substantive criteria for the committee to use when deciding whether to reclassify an inmate; they merely establish procedures”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanders v. Woodruff
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.