Owens-El v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
694 F.2d 941 · 1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Inmates of Allegheny County Jail v. Pierce P W R · Newark Morning Ledger Company, a Corporation of the State of New Jersey v. The United States of America · Cofield v. City of Atlanta · Davis v. Parratt
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n many cases arising under our civil rights laws, the citizen who must sue to enforce the law has little or no money with which to hire a lawyer. If private citizens are to be able to assert their civil rights, and if those who violate the Nation’s fundamental laws are not to proceed with impunity, then citizens must have the opportunity to recover what it costs them to vindicate these rights in court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kay v. Ehrler
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.