521 F. Supp. 753 - Ross v. Saltmarsh’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Hugh L. Carey, Individually and as Governor of the State of New York (1983), Henry v. Webermeier (1984)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 20 U.S.C. § 1701 (§ 202 of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Washington v. Davis · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Maher v. Gagne · New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer · County of Los Angeles v. Chavez-Salido
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allowable fees and expenses may not be reduced because appellants' attorney was employed or funded by a civil rights organization and/or tax exempt foundation or because the attorney does not exact a fee”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party ... a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henry v. Webermeier
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.