Smith v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
687 F.2d 113 · 1982
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2013
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Maher v. Gagne · Hanrahan v. Hampton · Harris v. McRae · Alioto Et Al. v. Williams Et Al. · Williams v. Alioto
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that by obtaining the preliminary injunction appellees “prevailed on the merits of at least some of (their) claims.” The preliminary injunction prevented appellants from continued enforcement of their original guidelines, which is precisely the relief appellees sought. Appellees succeeded on a “significant issue in litigation, which achieve(d) ... the benefit the parties sought in bringing suit.” Our previous dismissal of the appeal as moot and vacation of the district court judgment does not affect the fact that for the pertinent time period appellees obtained the desired relief....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no suggestion in the congressional history of 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1988, nor in the cases that have applied it, that it ought to be read in a niggardly way.”
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.