Cox v. Flood’s Empirical Analysis
683 F.2d 330 · 1982
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Braley v. Campbell (1987), Alcorn County Mississippi v. US Interstate Supplies Inc (1984)
34 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 White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Gurule v. Wilson · Halderman v. Pennhurst State School & Hospital · Croker v. Boeing Co.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“judgments finally disposing of the merits are appealable even though questions relating to attorney's fees have been left undecided.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] request for attorney's fees under Sec. 1988 raises legal issues collateral to the main cause of action--issues to which Rule 59(e) was never intended to apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court's disposition on the merits [was] not reviewable under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291 until the claim for attorney's fees [had] been resolved.”
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.