Williams-El v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
872 F.2d 224 · 1989
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Andrews v. Fowler (1996), Archuleta v. Colorado Department of Institutions (1991)
22 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless the evidence is such that without weighing the credibility of the witnesses there can be but one reasonable conclusion, the motion for directed verdict should be denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henson v. Falls“proscribes 'certain government actions regardless of the fairness of the procedures used to implement them.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Zakrzewski v. Fox“'reasonable minds could differ as to the importance of the evidence, ... a verdict should not be directed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porth v. Farrier
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.