Reed v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · County of Los Angeles v. Chavez-Salido · Copeland v. Marshall · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe that many of the considerations which apply to the setting of attorneys' fees in public litigation apply to setting the fees of a special master.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. Rhodes“rates available to attorneys in public litigation ... should guide courts in awarding fees to Masters in such cases ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. Rhodes“There is a singular lack of case law respecting appropriate compensation for special masters in public litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. Rhodes
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.