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Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
3
states following
November 2020
most recently cited

6 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Hope v. Cortines (1995), Dell v. Board of Education Township High School District (1994)

6 district · 3 state decisions

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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 Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee · William Marbury v. James Madison · Bender v. Williamsport Area School District · Maher v. Gagne · Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “fee shifting provisions cannot themselves confer subject matter jurisdiction.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[w]here there is no subject matter jurisdiction to proceed with the substantive claim, as a matter of law '[t]hat lack of jurisdiction bar[s] an award of attorneys fees under section 1988.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “it would be inappropriate to classify the district court's denial [of attorneys' fees] as an exercise of discretion at all [since] the district court's denial was compelled by time-honored principles expressing the limitations of subject matter jurisdiction in the federal courts.”
    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.