Williams v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
959 F.2d 1411 · 1992
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Rush v. McDonald's Corp. (1992), Weiss v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Chicago (1993)
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and if the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“drawing all inferences from the record in the light most favorable to the non-moving party.”
2 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.