Davis v. Parratt’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 717 · 1979
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably Kay v. Ehrler (1991), Poythress v. Kessler (1986)
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Farmer v. Arabian American Oil Co. · Morrow v. Dillard · Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, Inc. v. Citizens for Community Action · Ruth M. Sargeant v. Alexander E. Sharp, II
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he legislative history of Section 1988 reveals that its purpose is not to compensate pro se litigants, but to provide counsel fees to prevailing parties in order to give private citizens a meaningful opportunity to vindicate their rights: In many cases arising under our civil rights laws, the citizen who must sue to enforce the law has little or no money with which to hire a lawyer. If private citizens are to be able to assert their civil rights, ... [they] must have the opportunity to recover what it costs them to vindicate these rights in court. S.Rep.No.94-1011, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 2, reprinted in [1976] U.S. Code Cong, and Ad. News, pp. 5908, 5910. . . . This section presupposes a relationship of attorney and client that is lacking in the instant case. The district court properly denied Davis’ application for attorney fees.”
5 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.