Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, Inc. v. Citizens for Community Action’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 861 · 1977
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 26 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Diamond v. Charles (1986), Dataphase Systems, Inc. v. C L Systems, Inc. (1981)
67 federal appellate · 26 district · 11 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Warth v. Seldin · Roe v. Wade · Singleton v. Wulff · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(C)ourts have wide discretion in determining whether or not an award of attorney's fees is warranted, giving due consideration to the principle that the prevailing party should recover attorney's fees 'unless special circumstances would render such an award unjust.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“respective interests, while not adverse, [were] disparate”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A party is not entitled needlessly to accumulate exorbitant legal fees with the expectation that the losing party will be called upon to pick up the entire tab. This court will exercise vigilance and pare down needless and unconscionably high legal fees. An award of attorney’s fees is compensatory, not punitive, * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.