Bond v. Stanton’s Empirical Analysis
630 F.2d 1231 · 1980
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air (1986), White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security (1982)
79 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Hutto v. Finney · Maine v. Thiboutot · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party ... a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Plaintiff seeks fees for her efforts to collect the judgment awarded her in her successful action under the civil rights laws. Congress has determined that attorneys’ fees are necessary to fulfill the purposes of the civil rights laws by transferring the costs of litigation to those who infringe upon basic civil rights. The compensatory goals of the civil rights laws would thus be undermined if fees were not also available when defendants oppose the collection of civil rights judgments. An award of compensation for injuries sustained as a result of unconstitutional state action would be “diluted” if fees were denied to plaintiffs required to contest substantial efforts to resist or obstruct the collection of civil rights judgments. The victory would be hollow if plaintiffs were left with a paper judgment not negotiable into cash except by undertaking burdensome and uncompensated litigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“crucial to the obtaining of adequate relief for the class as plaintiffs' success at the liability stage.”
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.