Huecker v. Milburn’s Empirical Analysis
538 F.2d 1241 · 1976
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably Shimman v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 18 (1984), International Union of Petroleum & Industrial Workers v. Western Industrial Maintenance, Inc. (1983)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ad faith may be demonstrated by showing that a defendant's obstinancy in granting a plaintiff his clear legal rights necessitated resort to legal action with all the expense and delay entailed in litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'bad faith' which justifies the award of attorneys' fees may be demonstrated in the conduct which necessitated the action or in conduct occurring during the course of the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“for the added expense of having to vindicate clearly established rights in court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.