Schmidt v. Zazzara’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.2d 412 · 1976
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Transgo, Inc. v. Ajac Transmission Parts Corp. (1985), Williams v. Alioto (1980)
15 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Olympic Refining Co. v. Carter · Purer & Co. v. Aktiebolaget Addo · Corcoran v. Columbia BroadcastIng System, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Allowance of attorney's fees `is part of the historic equity jurisdiction of the federal courts,' and the district court could properly retain jurisdiction to determine appropriate attorney's fees ancillary to the case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not necessary to relegate Plaintiff to a separate action to recover fees.”
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.