Williams v. Willits’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 586 · 1988
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Choate v. Al Lockhart (1993), Howard v. Adkison (1989)
28 federal appellate · 8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Smith v. Wade · Angrist v. United States · Rogers v. United States · Murzyn v. United States · Augustin J. San Filippo v. United States Trust Company of New York
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“pretend that certain facts exist in order to foresee a theory of recovery not actually raised or reasonably inferred by the pleader.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made the perfectly reasonable decision that further intervention would threaten the health and safety of all concerned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Mueller“'beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Kaemingk
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.