Pelfresne v. Village of Williams Bay’s Empirical Analysis
917 F.2d 1017 · 1990
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Bobby J. Anderson v. Alfred Hardman (2001), Phillips v. Calhoun (1992)
76 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Mitchum v. Foster · Kungys v. United States · Icicle Seafoods, Inc. v. Worthington
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A litigant who fails to press a point by supporting it with pertinent authority, or by showing why it is sound despite a lack of supporting authority or in the face of contrary authority, forfeits the point.”
25 later decisions 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.