Williams v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 960 · 1991
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Williams v. Griffin (1991), Munz v. Michael (1994)
14 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conaway v. Smith · Lair v. Oglesby · Spear v. Dayton's
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t alleged, among other things, that the toilet in the cell did not work, and that it 'continually [ran] over [and] leak[ed] onto the cell floor and the floor stay[ed] filthy with its wast[e].'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do not believe that a litigant ... is under a duty to repeat his verified allegation in a new affidavit. Such a requirement would simply multiply the filing of paper for no good purpose.”
1 later decision 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.