Vaughn v. King’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.3d 347 · 1999
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2019
11 federal appellate · 1 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 Elrod v. Burns · Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · O'Hare Truck Service, Inc. v. City of Northlake · United States v. Berkowitz
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pretrial orders supersede the pleadings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an independent contractor providing legal services for a municipal entity, where the entity is the client of the attorney, is in a confidential position from which he or she can be dismissed for political considerations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vaughn v. King“violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution when they failed to afford plaintiffs their due process rights prior to refusing to pay the attorney fees”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vaughn v. King
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.