Williams v. Borough of West Chester’s Empirical Analysis
891 F.2d 458 · 1989
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 118 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 675 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Brown v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (1994), Morse v. Lower Merion School District (1997)
74 federal appellate · 118 district · 3 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. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · City of Canton v. Harris
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 675 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must amount to more than a scintilla, but may amount to less (in the evaluation of the court) than a preponderance.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that is, if the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rhodes v. Marix Servicing, LLC · A.M., by and Through His Next Friend and Mother, J.M.K. v. Luzerne County Juvenile Detention Center, a Department of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Sandra M. Brulo, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Chief Administrator of the Luzerne County Juvenile Detention Center Louis P. Kwarcinski, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Deputy Chief Probation Officer in Charge of the Luzerne County Juvenile Detention Center Jerome Prawdzik, in His Individual Capacity Christopher Traver, in His Individual Capacity Christopher Parker, in His Individual Capacity Michael Considine, in His Individual Capacity Mark Puffenberger, M.D., in His Official Capacity Elaine Yozviak, R.N., in Her Individual Capacity. (Amended Per Clerk's Order Dated 8/14/03)“more than a mere scintilla of evidence in its favor”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.