Watson v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2007
1 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Procunier v. Martinez · Hutto v. Finney · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Trop v. Dulles · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Order may include specific requirements and procedures beyond what is required by the Constitution of the United States of America and Constitution of the State of Iowa, or any other statutory or common law requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“offer benefits to the inmates that could not be constitutionally imposed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.