Wallace v. Mulholland’s Empirical Analysis
957 F.2d 333 · 1992
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Byrne v. Board of Education (1992), Cooper v. Casey (1996)
27 federal appellate · 3 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Henry v. City of Detroit Manpower Department · Rascon v. Hardiman · United States v. Williams
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a common core of facts or [are] based on related legal theories.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The lesson of Rascón is the danger that a jury will conclude that a mentally deficient plaintiff, regardless of his actual behavior, somehow “asked for” mistreatment at the hands of the two policemen is greater than the value of such evidence to explain the police officers’ use of force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmquist v. Selvik“Such evidence, together with evidence about [the decedent’s] specific actions in the past, would have overemphasized the likelihood that [the decedent] acted in a manner that justified the officers’ reaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmquist v. Selvik
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.