Walker v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
443 F.2d 33 · 1971
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Fey v. Walston & Co. (1974), Bailey v. Meister Brau, Inc. (1976)
18 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 1923
Relies on Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co. · Vaughan v. Atkinson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, the 'American Rule' governs the awarding of attorney's fees in federal courts. The 'American Rule' provides that each party should bear the cost of its litigation. Thus, in the United States, the prevailing litigant is ordinarily not entitled to collect the reasonable attorney's fees from the loser. An exception to the general rule applies when a statute specifically provides for the award of attorney's fees.... However, judicially created exceptions to the 'American Rule' apply (1) when a defendant willfully disobeys a court order and (2) when a losing party acts in bad faith, vexatiously, wantonly, or for oppressive reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“civil contempt action occasioned by willful disobedience of a court order.”
1 later decision 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.