Lefemine v. Wideman’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Daniel Tumpson v. James Farina (072813) (2014), Hill v. Crum (2013)
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Farrar v. Hobby · Rhodes v. Stewart · Lefemine v. Wideman · 732 F. Supp. 2d 614 - Lefemine v. Davis
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should ordinarily recover an attorney's fee unless special circumstances would render such an award unjust.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a plaintiff 'prevails' when actual relief on the merits of his claim materially alters the legal relationship between the parties by modifying the defendant's behavior in a way that directly benefits the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“repeatedly held that an injunction or declaratory judgment, like a damages award, will usually satisfy that test.”
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.