Stockman v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 district · 167 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 837 So. 2d 371 - Caufield v. Cantele (2002), 930 So. 2d 598 - Saia Motor Freight Line, Inc. v. Reid (2006)
1 district · 167 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. § 1988
Relies on Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Commissioner v. Engle · United States v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · 518 So. 2d 1270 - Florida Bar re Advisory Opinion Hrs Nonlawyer Counselor
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a party has notice that an opponent claims entitlement to attorney's fees, and by its conduct recognizes or acquiesces to that claim or otherwise fails to object to the failure to plead entitlement, that party waives any objection to the failure to plead a claim for attorney's fees.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] party seeking attorney's fees pursuant to statute or contract must plead entitlement to such fees.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“May a prevailing party recover attorney's fees authorized in a statute or contract by a motion filed within a reasonable time after entry of a final judgment, which motion raises the issue of that party's entitlement to attorney's fees for the first time?”
5 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.