Williams v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.3d 126 · 1996
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Shook v. El Paso County (2004), 935 F. Supp. 332 - Benjamin v. Jacobson (1996)
15 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on United States v. Swift & Co. · Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail · Local Number 93, International Ass'n of Firefighters v. City of Cleveland · System Federation No. 91 v. Wright · United States v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court shall not grant or approve any prospective relief unless the court finds that such relief is narrowly drawn, extends no further than necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right, and is the least intrusive means necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ernest Smith Jimmy Rudd v. Arkansas Department of Correction A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction Larry Norris, Acting Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction Willis H. Sargent, Warden of the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction A.J. Hall, Major, Chief of Security R.R. Wood, Lieutenant, Shift Supervisor J. Cleveland, Guard John Hood, Officer James Banks, Classification and Assignment Officer, Ron Smyers, Medical Services Administrator John Does, I-X, Dale Reed, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Linda C. Smith, Administratrix of the Estate of John E. Stewart v. Arkansas Department of Correction A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, Larry Norris, Acting Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction Willis H. Sargent, Warden of the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction A.J. Hall, Major, Chief of Security R.R. Wood, Lieutenant, Shift Supervisor J. Cleveland, Guard John Hood, Officer, James Banks, Classification and Assignment Officer Ron Smyers, Medical Services Administrator John Does, I-X · Smith“[T]he district court has the discretion to modify a decree when the court is made aware that the factual circumstances or the law underlying that decree has changed--regardless of the parties' silence or inertia.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“then any remedy it might fashion must conform to the standards set forth in the Act.”
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.