White v. Beal’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1396 (§ 1900 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 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 (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Monroe v. Pape · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Hagans v. Lavine
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To the extent a plaintiff joins a claim under one of the statutes enumerated in H.R.15460 with a claim that does not allow attorney fees, that plaintiff, if it prevails on the non-fee claim, is entitled to a determination on the other claim for the purpose of awarding counsel fees. [Citation omitted]. • In some instances, however, the claim with fees may involve a constitutional question which the courts are reluctant to resolve if the nonconstitutional claim is dispositive. [Citation omitted]. In such cases, if the claim for which fees may be awarded meets the “substantiality” test [i. e., not so attenuated and unsubstantial as to be absolutely devoid of merit] [citations omitted], attorney’s fees may be allowed even though the court declines to enter judgment for the plaintiff on that claim, so long as the plaintiff prevails on the non-fee claim arising out of a “common nucleus of operative fact.” [Citation omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bass v. Spitz“1. The actual amount of time devoted to the litigation. The number of hours spent — by whom and in what manner. 2. A determination of a reasonable hourly rate for the time and activities performed. 3. The valuation of the services rendered in terms of the quality of the work performed, the contingent nature of success and the resulting benefits to the. individual plaintiffs and class members.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a denial of attorneys' fees on the basis that the constitutional claim was not adjudicated ... would only serve to thwart both the judicial policy against unnecessarily deciding issues of constitutional dimension and the purpose for which the Act was passed.”
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.