Edwin R. Long and Ralph E. Long v. Jean M. Bonnes’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 12 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2000 · most notably Spencer v. National Labor Relations Board (1983), Posada v. Lamb County (1983)
60 federal appellate · 12 district · 19 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 20 U.S.C. § 1681 (§ 901 of the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison · Bonnes v. Long
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the precise factual/legal condition that the fee claimant has sought to change or affect,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““Even if plaintiffs can establish that their suit was causally related to the defendants’ actions which improve their condition, this is only half of their battle. The test they must pass is legal as well as factual. If it has been judicially determined that defendants’ conduct, however beneficial it may be to plaintiffs’ interests, is not required by law, then defendants must be held to have acted gratuitously and plaintiffs have not prevailed in a legal sense.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless an action brought by a private litigant contains some basis in law for the benefits ultimately received by that litigant, the litigant cannot be said to have 'enforced' the civil rights laws or to have promoted their policies for the benefit of the public at large.”
2 later decisions 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.