Cooper v. Singer’s Empirical Analysis
689 F.2d 929 · 1982
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Lenard v. Argento (1983), Mares v. Credit Bureau of Raton (1986)
15 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services · Copper Liquor, Inc. v. Adolph Coors 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are adequate to attract competent counsel, but which do not produce windfalls to attorneys.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As discussed below, however, the Fifth Circuit in later opinions has not treated the fee arrangement as a binding limit on a reasonable fee, or a bar to enhancement on consideration of other Johnson factors. E.g., Copper Liquor Inc. v. Adolph Coors Co., 624 F.2d 575 , 583 n. 14 (5th Cir.). Moreover, while in Francia v. White [ 594 F.2d 778 (10th Cir. 1979)] we commended consideration of the Johnson factors, the Francia opinion states that not all of them need be considered. Thus it does not appear that each statement in the Johnson opinion, like that above, is binding as a strict limitation which we must follow.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Cooper v. Singer“... In any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of sections 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1986 of this title, title IX of Public Law 92-318, or title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney’s fee as part of the costs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lenard v. Argento
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.