Woods v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
994 F.2d 494 · 1993
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2016
9 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Town of Newton v. Rumery · Hall v. Ochs · Kegel v. Runnels · Pilon v. University of Minnesota
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Many factors may bear on whether a release was voluntary and not the product of overreaching, some of which come readily to mind. The knowledge and experience of the criminal defendant and the circumstances of the execution of the release, including, importantly, whether the defendant was counseled, are clearly relevant. The nature of the criminal charges that are pending is also important for the greater the charge, the greater the coercive effect. The existence of a legitimate criminal justice objective for obtaining the release will support its validity. And importantly, the possibility of abuse is clearly mitigated if the release-dismissal is executed under judicial supervision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“whether the signer [of the release] is in custody at the time of signing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the time with which the signer considered the document”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.