Wilson III’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably McCook v. Springer School District (2002), Mason v. Stock (1997)
15 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 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · United States v. Diebold, Inc.
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.
“A municipality cannot be held liable under § 1983 where there is no underlying constitutional violation by any of its officers.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The law of the case is a judicial doctrine designed to promote decisional finality. Once a court decides an issue, the doctrine comes into play to prevent the re-litigation of that issue in subsequent proceedings in the same cases.” Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co. v. Watchman, 52 F.3d 1531 , 1536 n. 4 (10th Cir.1995) (citing Arizona v. California, 460 U.S. 605, 618-19 , 103 S.Ct. 1382, 1391-92 , 75 L.Ed.2d 318 (1983)). The doctrine is considered only a rule of practice and is not a limit on a court’s power or authority. Id.”
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.