Poy v. Boutselis’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.3d 479 · 2003
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 38 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Marrero-Gutierrez v. Molina (2007), De Jesús Nazario v. Morris Rodríguez (2009)
16 federal appellate · 38 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Wilson v. Garcia · Hanna v. Plumer · Smith v. Wade · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“borrow[] the appropriate state law governing limitations unless contrary to federal law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We begin with the threshold principle enunciated by the Supreme Court in Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 433 , 103 S.Ct. 1933 , 76 L.Ed.2d 40 (1983), endorsing our formulation in Nadeau v. Helgemoe, 581 F.2d 275, 278-79 (1st Cir. 1978), that “plaintiffs may be considered ‘prevailing parties’ for attorney’s fees purposes if they succeed on any significant issue in litigation which achieves some of the benefit the parties sought in bringing suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“take 'both the facts and the reasonable - 11 - inferences therefrom in the light most hospitable to the jury's verdict.'”
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.