Howard v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Fairley v. Patterson · Miller v. Carson · Brown v. Culpepper
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, it is plain that the organization that employed Mr. Kellogg, the American Civil Liberties Union should receive the fees generated by Mr. Kellogg’s services up to the date he was no longer employed by them, Mr. Kellogg to receive fees only for services rendered since July 1,1977 when he left the services of the ACLU.”
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.