Wg Dg Do’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
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
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.
“fee shifting provisions cannot themselves confer subject matter jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 95 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5994, 95 Daily Journal D.A.R. 10,312 Ronald Branson v. Michael G. Nott Morio L. Fukuto Ray L. Hart Jerry K. Fields Estella Guevara Zahava Stroud and Morris, Polich & Purdy, P.C., a Licensed Law Firm · 987 F. Supp. 127 - NEW YORK STATE CHAPTER OF AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS v. Wing“[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 majoritye.g. 95 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5994, 95 Daily Journal D.A.R. 10,312 Ronald Branson v. Michael G. Nott Morio L. Fukuto Ray L. Hart Jerry K. Fields Estella Guevara Zahava Stroud and Morris, Polich & Purdy, P.C., a Licensed Law Firm · 987 F. Supp. 127 - NEW YORK STATE CHAPTER OF AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS v. Wing“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.