Littlefield v. Mack’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
December 1992
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Marek v. Chesny · Kelley v. Metropolitan County Board of Education · Davis v. Murphy · Ekanem v. Health & Hospital Corp.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that does not mean that section 1988's definition of 'costs' should be superimposed on the definition of 'costs' in [Rule 39 of] the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDonald v. McCarthy
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.