Haley v. Pataki’s Empirical Analysis
106 F.3d 478 · 1997
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Maine School Administrative District No. 35 v. Mr. & Mrs. R. (2003), Dearmore v. City of Garland (2008)
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Kentucky v. Graham · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Pierce v. Underwood · West v. Atkins
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a decision to award attorney's fees requires an analysis of whether the party's relief, whether by injunction or stay, resulted from a determination of the merits. When a party receives a stay or preliminary injunction but never obtains a final judgment, attorney's fees are proper if the court's action in granting the preliminary injunction is governed by its assessment of the merits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Section] 1983 is concerned with the substance of the prevailing party's action, rather than the form in which it is presented”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiff must obtain at least some relief on the merits of his claim.”
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.