Zarcone v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 1039 · 1978
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 12 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Furtado v. Bishop (1980), Maria Difilippo v. Tullio Morizio (1985)
50 federal appellate · 12 district · 16 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
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of sections 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1986 of this title . . . the Court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney’s fee as part of the costs.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether a person in the plaintiff's position would have been deterred or inhibited in seeking to enforce civil rights without an assurance that his attorneys' fees would be paid if he were successful.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'should ordinarily recover an attorney's fee unless special circumstances would render an award unjust'”
4 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.