Miller v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 346 · 1980
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2007 · most notably Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air (1986), Dowdell v. City of Apopka (1983)
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Hutto v. Finney · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · California v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]ecause issues may at times be reasonably related, we reject anything in Nadeau or Sethy [v. Alameda County Water District, 602 F.2d 894 (9th Cir.1979)] which insists that a district court must always sever an attorney’s work into ‘issue parcels’ and then assess that work for purposes of a fee award in terms of the outcome of each issue standing alone. Panior v. Iberville Parish School Board, 543 F.2d 1117 , 1119 & n. 2 (5th Cir.1976) (discussing legislative history); Watkins v. Scott Paper Company, 530 F.2d 1159 , 1198 n. 53 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 861 [ 97 S.Ct. 163 , 50 L.Ed.2d 139 ] (1976).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]or 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turner v. Orr
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.