Doe v. Busbee’s Empirical Analysis
684 F.2d 1375 · 1982
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (2001), Goldsmith v. Bagby Elevator Co. (2008)
51 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hughes v. Rowe · Harris v. McRae
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] party may be considered to be 'prevailing' if the litigation successfully terminates by a consent decree, an out-of-court settlement, a voluntary cessation of the unlawful practice by the defendant, or other mooting of the case when the plaintiff has vindicated his right.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of Secs. 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1986 of [Title 42] ... the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party ... a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the cost.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consistent with the policy underlying Sec. 1988, [they] in some way vindicate[d] a civil right at issue in the litigation against the violation of that civil right ...”
2 later decisions 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.