Dean v. Civiletti’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.2d 99 · 1982
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Derr v. Gulf Oil Corp. (1986), Hicks v. Brown Group, Inc. (1990)
17 federal appellate · 6 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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [W]e disagree with the district court’s conclusion that [plaintiff] is entitled to no relief. We find that having prevailed on the discrimination issue ... she is entitled to recover nominal damages of at least $1 as well as attorney’s fees for proceedings in the district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“having prevailed on the discrimination issue ... [plaintiff] is entitled to recover nominal damages of at least $1 as well as reasonable attorney's fees”
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.