Davis v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
587 F.2d 362 · 1978
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2008 · most notably Hanrahan v. Hampton (1980), Hampton v. Hanrahan (1979)
21 federal appellate · 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Hutto v. Finney · Bond v. Stanton · Davis v. Murphy
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prevailing plaintiff should receive fees almost as a matter of course.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is intended that the standards for awarding fees be generally the same as under the fee provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. A party seeking to enforce the rights protected by the statutes covered by [the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Award Act of 1976], if successful, “should ordinarily recover an attorney’s fee unless special circumstances would render such an award unjust.””
1 later decision 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.