Wilson v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
March 1989
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
Most-quoted passages
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“[w]e have held that there can be only one prevailing party for purposes of an award of attorney fees, but that there need not always be a winner.... If both parties prevailed, or neither of them prevailed, an award of attorney's fees would not be appropriate or required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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