Fort v. White’s Empirical Analysis
530 F.2d 1113 · 1976
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably McCann v. Coughlin (1983), Carrion v. Yeshiva University (1976)
24 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
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Hall v. Cole · Curtis v. Loether · Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) The court may grant as relief, as it deems appropriate, any permanent or temporary injunction, temporary restraining order, or other order, and may award to the plaintiff actual damages and not more than $1,000 punitive damages, together with court costs and reasonable attorney fees in the case of a prevailing plaintiff: Provided, That the said plaintiff in the opinion of the court is not financially able to assume said attorney's fees. It is a matter of discretion for the trial judge but in the exercise of that discretion the role of counsel acting not only on behalf of his client but others similarly situated cannot be ignored. ... In view of this contribution we feel that the plaintiffs may be recognized as having rendered substantial service to the corn munity and that on this basis attorneys’ fees should be awarded. 9”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zarcone v. Perry“The award of counsel fees encourages private enforcement of statutes directing the elimination of discriminatory practices. ... An award of counsel fees [encourages] individuals to seek judicial relief which, through the injunctive remedy [achieves] success not only for the individual plaintiff but others similarly circumstanced. § 3612(c) however as we have noted, expressly provides for actual as well as punitive damages so that the successful litigant in the usual case will be able to pay his counsel fees out of damages; hence we cannot accept the argument that every successful litigant is entitled to counsel fees- as a matter of course.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zarcone v. Perry“The court below properly observed that ‘[t]he employer himself must be shown to have acted or failed to act to prevent known or wilfully disregarded actions of his employee to be liable in punitive damages.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.