147 F. Supp. 2d 180 - Gonzalez v. Bratton’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Patino v. Birken Mfg. Co. (2012), Parrish v. Sollecito (2003)
2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981A · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At every stage of the proceeding, the ... [defendants’ lawyers, as was their right and professional duty, aggressively challenged [the plaintiffs] claims. In so doing, they displayed a fierceness matched in its intensity only by the double shock they now profess at the number of hours [plaintiffs] attorneys assert they devoted to this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]or the statute of limitations to be tolled under the theory of continuing wrongs, the acts within the statute of limitations must be sufficient to make out a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress, “independent of those acts that are part of the offending course of conduct but fall outside the time bar.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In an action to enforce a federal right, the decision whether to award prejudgment interest and the rate to be applied if such interest is granted, are matters ordinarily left to the discretion of the district court.”
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.