Williams v. Meese’s Empirical Analysis
926 F.2d 994 · 1991
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 40 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Mobley v. McCormick (1994), David v. City And County Of Denver (1997)
91 federal appellate · 40 district · 8 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 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Estelle v. Gamble · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Meade v. Grubbs · Maclin v. Freake
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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when it appears that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of the claims that would entitle the plaintiff to relief.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accept all the well-pleaded allegations of the complaint as true and must construe them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from [plaintiff's] having been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the [defendants'] correctional institution. The primary purpose of their association [is] incarceration, not employment.”
4 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.