Jaffee v. Redmond’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.3d 409 · 1998
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Spegon v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago (1999), Federation of Advertising Industry Representatives, Inc. v. City of Chicago (2003)
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 · Farrar v. Hobby · City of Riverside v. Rivera · Foy v. Northeast Suburban Life · Jaffee Special Administrator for Allen Deceased v. Redmond
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the justifications for the generally deferential standard of review are absent”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“superior understanding of the litigation”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as with all questions of law, we review de novo the alleged legals errors made by the district court in denying fees.”
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.