Lackey v. Bowling’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2000
6 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1337 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2996E · 42 U.S.C. § 3612 (§ 812 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Hagans v. Lavine · Hutto v. Finney · Rodriguez v. Taylor · 8 Fair empl.prac.cas. 577, 8 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 9658 William A. Waters and Donald Samuels v. Wisconsin Steel Works of International William A. Waters and Donald a Corporation, and United Order of American Bricklayers and Stone Masons, Local 21, an Unincorporated Association, United Order of American Bricklayers and Stone Masons, Local 21 v. William A. Waters and Donald Samuels, International Harvester Company v. William A. Waters and Donald Samuels · Fairley v. Patterson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of sections 1981, 1981a, 1982, 1983,1985, and 1986 of this title, title IX of Public Law 92-318, . . . [or] title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, . . . the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than tile United States, a reasonable attorney’s fee as part of the costs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“That the threat and then the filing of this lawsuit at least hastened defendants' change of policy is clear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harrington v. DeVito
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.