Preston v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2000
4 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hutto v. Finney · Maher v. Gagne · Michel v. United States · Hanrahan v. Hampton · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At some point, it is evident that compensation for time spent litigating entitlements to attorney’s fees for establishing an entitlement to fees is no longer com-pensable. We think that once plaintiffs have established that they are entitled to attorney’s fees and have been granted an award of fees for establishing that entitlement, no further fee awards on the attorney’s fees aspect of the case should be allowed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dotson v. Chester
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.