Buxton v. Patel’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 1182 · 1979
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Chalmers v. City of Los Angeles (1986), Smiddy v. Varney (1981)
46 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 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. · Northcross v. Board of Education of Memphis City Schools
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is of course neither necessary nor sufficient to justify the denial of attorney’s fees. It would be anomalous for courts to discourage contingent fee arrangements by allowing the recovery of fees when such agreements are absent and denying recovery when they are present.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nor did the district judge indicate any evidence or contention that appellee defended this suit in bad faith. Given this background the district judge could properly conclude that the purposes of section 1988 would not be served by an award of fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party . . . a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aho v. Clark
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.