Corder v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
104 F.3d 247 · 1996
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Scott Fischer v. Sjb-Pd Inc Svenja Bienlefeld (2000), San Pedro Hotel Co. v. City of Los Angeles (1998)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Farrar v. Hobby · United States v. Drabeck · Franceschi v. Schwartz · Corder v. Gates · Cabrales v. County of Los Angeles
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of section[ ] ... 1983 ... the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party ... a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, we review de novo any elements of legal analysis which figure in the district court's decision.”
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.