Dawson v. Pastrick’s Empirical Analysis
600 F.2d 70 · 1979
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Hanrahan v. Hampton (1980), United States v. City of Miami (1981)
75 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Monroe v. Pape · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Washington v. Davis · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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 131 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.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should ordinarily recover an attorney's fee unless special circumstances would render such an award unjust.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for purposes of the award of counsel fees, parties may be considered to have prevailed when they vindicate rights through a consent judgment or without formally obtaining relief.”
3 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.