Tasby v. Estes’s Empirical Analysis
651 F.2d 287 · 1981
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Johnson v. University College of Alabama (1983), Dowdell v. City of Apopka (1983)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 1988
Relies on Northcross v. Board of Education of Memphis City Schools · Northcross v. Board of Education · Board of Education of Little Rock School District v. Clark · Estes v. Metropolitan Branches of the Dallas NAACP · Corpus Christi Independent School District v. Cisneros
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A factor which the district court did expressly take into account was its view that the services of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund had not been shown to be necessary. As noted above, the use of a number of attorneys frequently results in some duplication of effort, and a district court may take this factor into account by deducting some small percentage of the total hours.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Obviously, where duplication is found by the court to be not small, the court is not limited to making a small percentage reduction. Parties seeking the assurance that clear representational overkill can provide must bear themselves the cost that it occasions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If [they are] not compensated for such work--which had to be done by someone--no one will be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mitchell v. Johnston
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.