Rainey v. Jackson State College’s Empirical Analysis
551 F.2d 672 · 1977
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably Copeland v. Marshall (1979), Jones v. Diamond (1981)
64 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer · Finney v. Hutto
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the time and labor required, (2) the skill requisite to properly perform the legal services, (3) preclusion of other employment by the attorney due to acceptance of the case, (4) the novelty and difficulty of the questions presented, (5) the customary fee, (6) whether the fee is fixed or contingent, (7) time limitations imposed by the client, (8) the amount involved and the results obtained, , (9) the experience, reputation and ability of the attorneys, (10) the undesirability of the case, (11) the nature and length of the professional relationship with the client, (12) awards in similar cases.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Bradley, the Court authorized an award of attorneys’ fees to plaintiffs in a school desegregation case under § 718 of the Education Acts Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1617 , even though (a) there were no pending or appealable orders in the case except for attorneys’ fees, and (b) § 718 had not been enacted until after initial submission of the case to the Court of Appeals.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs.”
2 later decisions 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.