Collins v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
649 F.2d 1203 · 1981
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Dowdell v. City of Apopka (1983), Barrett v. Thomas (1981)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 20 U.S.C. § 1681 (§ 901 of the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Monroe v. Pape · Hutto v. Finney · Maher v. Gagne · Morrow v. Dillard
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he district court’s authority to award attorney’s fees is established by § 1988 which is a Congressional enactment pursuant to Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. To the extent that § 1988’s authorization of district court orders awarding attorney’s fees conflicts with Texas restrictions on the execution of judgments against counties, the federal statute must prevail over state law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a judgment directs a party to execute a conveyance of land or to deliver deeds or other documents or to perform any other specific act and the party fails to comply within the time specified, the court may direct the act to be done at the cost of the disobedient party by some other person appointed by the court ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“proceedings on and in aid of execution [of judgment] shall be in accordance with the practice and procedure of the state in which the district court is held.”
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.