26 Cal. 4th 572 - Flannery v. Prentice’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 168 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably 29 Cal. 4th 911 - Kavanaugh v. West Sonoma County Union High School District (2003), 34 Cal. 4th 553 - Graham v. DaimlerChrysler Corp. (2005)
4 federal appellate · 168 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 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Blum v. Stenson · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · 45 Cal. 3d 727 - Lungren v. Deukmejian · Evans v. Jeff D. Ex Rel. Johnson · 20 Cal. 3d 25 - Serrano v. Priest
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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the narrow question ... whether a party may receive or keep the proceeds of a fee award when she has neither agreed to pay her attorneys nor obtained from them a waiver of payment,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]ithout some mechanism authorizing the award of attorney fees, private actions to enforce such important public policies will as a practical matter frequently be infeasible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he court, in its discretion, may award to the prevailing party reasonable attorney's fees and costs, ... except where the action is filed by a public agency....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.