Milwe v. Cavuoto’s Empirical Analysis
653 F.2d 80 · 1981
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Lightfoot v. Union Carbide Corp. (1997), Spencer v. National Labor Relations Board (1983)
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Carey v. Piphus · Hutto v. Finney · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Maher v. Gagne · California v. Civil Aeronautics Board
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of sections 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1986 of this title ... the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney’s fee as part of the costs.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“in cases 'in which the plaintiff prevails on a wholly statutory, non-civil rights claim pendent to a substantial constitutional claim.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The district court’s discretion to deny fees begins, therefore, only after an initial determination that the plaintiffs claim was so strong on the merits and so likely to result in a substantial judgment that counsel in similar cases could be easily and readily retained. Only after this threshold has been crossed may a district court proceed to the second step and exercise discretion to deny counsel fees if it believes an award would work an injustice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.