Quintana v. Jenne’s Empirical Analysis
414 F.3d 1306 · 2005
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Tutor-Saliba Corp. v. City of Hailey (2006), Harris v. Maricopa County Superior Court (2011)
7 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Koon v. United States · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Sullivan v. School Board of Pinellas County · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Reichhold Chemicals, 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“undermine the intent of Congress to allow plaintiffs to prosecute frivolous claims without consequences merely because those claims were joined with unsuccessful claims that were not frivolous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. at 455. The court concluded that, despite the high bar defendants must satisfy to receive fees in civil rights cases, fee awards are still necessary to deter frivolous claims and that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court should not deny fees for defending frivolous claims merely because calculation would be difficult.”
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.