550 F. Supp. 262 - Tasby v. Wrightâs Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ¡ 2 district ¡ 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions â most recently June 1994
2 federal appellate ¡ 2 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 â not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory ¡ Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond ¡ Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education ¡ Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. ¡ Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each â the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
âthe contingent nature of the employment, i.e., the recovery of attorney's fees by applicants was wholly contingent upon their prevailing in the litigation....â
1 later decision quote this exact passage ¡ from the majority
How this case has been treated â 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.