Van Ooteghem v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 488 · 1980
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati (1986), Haynesworth v. Miller (1987)
51 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Monroe v. Pape
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Attorney's fees are recovered as part of costs in § 1983 actions; as such, they may be and, in order not to delay the trial on the merits, often should be proven after a decision in the principal case has been reached. See Gore v. Turner, 563 F.2d 159, 163 (5th Cir. 1977). A motion for fees is not a motion to alter or amend the judgment, Knighton v. Watkins, 616 F.2d 795 (5th Cir.1980), and therefore, does not require a reconsideration of the judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Findings of fact shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous, and due regard shall be give to the opportunity of a trial court to judge of the credibility of the witnesses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the interest of the (college) in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees,”
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.