Underwood v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2006 · most notably Pierce v. Underwood (1988), Spencer v. National Labor Relations Board (1983)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 12 U.S.C. § 1715Z · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1773 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Hutto v. Finney · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Hall v. Cole
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.
“[w]hen the settlement was negotiated the common fund/common benefit doctrine provided the only realistic basis for a fee award, which plaintiffs' counsel agreed to forego since that could have reduced the amounts paid to low-income class members.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Underwood v. Pierce“'a court is to apply the law in effect at the time it renders its decision, unless doing so would result in manifest injustice or there is a statutory direction or legislative history to the contrary.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rawlings v. Heckler“[T]he court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party . . . a reasonable attorney's fee”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pierce v. Underwood
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.