Bills v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 844 · 1980
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 32 Cal. 3d 668 - Folsom v. Butte County Assn. of Governments (1982), Woods-Drake v. Lundy (1982)
15 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 Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Barber v. Kimbrell'S, Inc. · Rodriguez v. Taylor · Tillman v. Wheaton-Haven Recreation Ass'n · Hodge v. Seiler
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a special circumstance that would render an award of fees unjust”
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.