Heeren v. City of Jamestown’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.3d 628 · 1994
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2014
10 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 5301 · 42 U.S.C. § 5304
Relies on Kentucky v. Graham · Pierce v. Underwood · Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School District · Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club · Citizens Coalition for Block Grant Compliance, Inc. v. City of Euclid
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he legislative history of section 2412 indicates that Congress intended that `prevailing party' as used in the Equal Access to Justice Act be read consistently with its use in other feeshifting statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[L]iability on the merits and responsibility for fees go hand in hand; where a defendant has not been prevailed against * * * § 1988 does not authorize a fee award against that defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“whether the relief obtained resulted from a gratuitous act on the defendant's part or whether defendant's actions were mandated by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.