Redd v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
674 F.2d 1032 · 1982
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2003 · most notably Webb v. Board of Education of Dyer County Tennessee (1985), Daigle v. Opelousas Health Care, Inc. (1985)
14 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Allen v. McCurry · Bell v. Hood · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Murphy v. Hunt · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the state proceedings in Bartholomew were a “necessary preliminary” to the enforcement of section 1983 in federal district court, the state proceeding in this case served an entirely different function. Congress chose in section 1341 to remit a plaintiff completely to his state remedies so long as they are plain, speedy and efficient. Congress did not intend for the state proceedings to be a necessary preliminary to further federal relief. Instead, it intended state proceedings to be a plaintiff’s primary route with final review of any federal claims in the Supreme Court. [Citations omitted.] Where the state proceedings do not form an integral part of the federal remedy, but were intended to be a separate route, it would be inappropriate for the federal court to award attorney’s fees for work done in state proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In any action or proceeding under [Title VII] the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the [Equal Employment Opportunity] Commission or the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no indication that Congress intended that the lower federal courts would provide supplemental relief whenever a litigant does not receive all the relief he seeks in state court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnsen v. Collins
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.