Stevens v. Municipal Court for San Jose-Milpitas Judicial District County of Santa Clara State of California’s Empirical Analysis
603 F.2d 111 · 1979
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Southeast Legal Defense Group v. Adams (1981), Miller-Wohl Co. v. Commissioner of Labor & Industry (1982)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“litigant confers a substantial benefit on an easily identifiable class of persons, where the benefits can be traced with reasonable accuracy, and the costs of litigation can be shifted with some exactitude, to those benefiting.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of sections 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1986 of this title, title IX of Public Law 92-318, or title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 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.”
2 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.