Vasquez v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
617 F.2d 334 · 1980
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2013
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 · 48 U.S.C. § 1615
Relies on Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · Prandini v. National Tea Co. · Hughes v. Repko · Bagby v. Beal · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the cost. As we noted in Vasquez v. Fleming, 617 F.2d 334 (3d Cir. 1980), an award under the statute is”
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.