Webb v. Maldonado’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2006 · most notably Save Our Cumberland Mountains, Inc. v. Hodel (1988), Davis v. City and County San Francisco (1992)
27 federal appellate · 5 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 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Blum v. Stenson · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Griffin v. Hilke
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not decide whether the fee awards of private attorneys with an established billing rate must be calculated in the same manner”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Samuel L. McDonald Gerald M. Smith Rayfield Newlon Thomas Battle Alan J. Bannister, and on Behalf of All Other Persons Similarly Situated v. Bill Armontrout Lee Roy Black Donald W. Wyrick John D. Ashcroft, Samuel L. McDonald Gerald M. Smith Rayfield Newlon Thomas Battle Alan J. Bannister, and on Behalf of All Other Persons Similarly Situated v. Bill Armontrout Lee Roy Black Donald W. Wyrick John D. Ashcroft · McDonald
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.