Flint v. Haynes’s Empirical Analysis
651 F.2d 970 · 1981
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Herold v. Hajoca Corp. (1988), Hampton v. Hobbs (1997)
43 federal appellate · 4 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hughes v. Rowe · Farmer v. Arabian American Oil Co. · Harris v. Oklahoma
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a district court is empowered to award costs even when it has previously granted a litigant the benefits”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lay v. Anderson · Weaver v. Toombs“costs at the conclusion of the suit or action as in other cases.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ronald Weaver Leo McKaye Morris Martin v. Raymond Toombs Robert Brown, Jr. Donald Mason Robert Mulvaney Ted Strassburg · Arkamel Ray Sales v. R.C. Marshall, Warden, John Horn, Nursing Supt., Nancy Shaw, Nurse, Roger MacAlister Nurse, William Hunter v. Huey Blair, State of Ohio/socf, Intervenor-Appellant“[ ] and the purpose of Sec. 1915--equal access for the poor and the rich--is distorted. Non-indigents who contemplate litigation are routinely forced to decide whether their claim is”
5 later decisions 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.