Staten v. Housing Authority’s Empirical Analysis
638 F.2d 599 · 1980
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Anderson, Inc. v. Town of Erie (1985), Sullivan v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation (1981)
20 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Maine v. Thiboutot · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Maher v. Gagne · Michel v. United States
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Funding is certainly one indication of whether an Authority is an extension of the United States; it is not, however, determinative. We must also consider the Agency’s exclusive control over the federal grant funds, its freedom from federal involvement or control over the daily management and operation of the Authority, and the fact that the Housing Authority was created by and continues to be governed in accordance with state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(w)hether (a plaintiff) is entitled to a fees award should be determined by whether her case acted as a 'catalyst' for the vindication of her constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Attorney's Fees in Damage Actions Under the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shadis v. Beal
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.