Williams v. Luna’s Empirical Analysis
909 F.2d 121 · 1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2019
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Johnson v. Morel · Cay v. Wj Estelle · Pugh v. Parish of St. Tammany · Bush v. Viterna · Huguet v. Barnett
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In response to questions from the district court at the Spears hearing, Assistant Warden Driscroll read from a disciplinary report.... The judge ordered the disciplinary report submitted for the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Barrientos“the use of prison records ... is improper”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Barrientos
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.