Kulkarni v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
662 F.2d 758 · 1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2012
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 Califano v. Sanders · Brown v. General Services Administration · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · Chandler v. Roudebush
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“general principle has been applied to motions for summary judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The statutory reference to the court's 'discretion' does not authorize a refusal to award any fees to a prevailing plaintiff unless special circumstances would render such an award unjust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Staats“when issues not raised by the pleadings are tried by express or implied consent of the parties, they shall be treated in all respects as if they had been raised in the pleadings.”
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.