Staley v. Harris County TX’s Empirical Analysis
485 F.3d 305 · 2006
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Sossamon v. Lone Star (2009), Houston Chronicle Publishing Co. v. City of League City (2007)
17 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources · Marks v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] determination of mootness neither precludes nor is precluded by an award of attorneys' fees. The attorneys' fees question turns instead on a wholly independent consideration: whether plaintiff is a `prevailing party'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“To qualify as a prevailing party `[a]ll that is required is that the plaintiff obtain the primary relief sought.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the Supreme Court rejected the uniform rule reflected in Munsingwear when it decided U.S. Bancorp .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hall v. Louisiana
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.