Piper’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2021
1 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 Farrar v. Hobby · Weissbrodt v. White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona · Landscape Properties, Inc. v. Vogel · Casey v. City of Cabool, Missouri · Jones v. Al Lockhart a
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he deferential abuse of discretion standard has been and remains paramount to our review of a ... court's decision to grant or deny attorney's fees in a nominal damages case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.