Cramblit v. Fikse’s Empirical Analysis
33 F.3d 633 · 1994
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Bowling Lpa Pc v. Pfizer Inc (1996), Adcock-Ladd v. Secretary of Treasury (2000)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Farrar v. Hobby · Perotti v. Seiter · Citizens Against Tax Waste v. Westerville City School
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the only reasonable fee is usually no fee at all.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in determining the reasonableness of a fee award. Id. Furthermore, this court has noted that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court's award or denial of attorney's fees is reviewed for abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions 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.