Carroll v. Blinken’s Empirical Analysis
105 F.3d 79 · 1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Rabbi Yitzchok Leblanc-Sternberg v. Robert Fletcher, (1998), Barfield v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp. (2008)
6 federal appellate ·
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 Farrar v. Hobby · China Everbright Trading Co. v. Timber Falling Consultants, Inc. · Levinson v. United States · China Everbright Trading Co. v. Timber Falling Consultants, Inc. · Koster v. Perales
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the damage award is nominal or modest, the injunctive relief has no systemic effect of importance, and no substantial public interest is served, a substantial fee award cannot be justified.”), such holdings were (at least) impaired by the declaration in Perdue that the lodestar is the”
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.