Dowdell v. City of Apopka’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.2d 1181 · 1983
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 11 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Marek v. Chesny (1985), 572 F. Supp. 354 - Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. (1983)
75 federal appellate · 11 district · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Washington v. Davis · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · Pullman-Standard v. Swint
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[reasonable attorneys fees under [§ 1988] must include reasonable expenses because attorneys’ fees and expenses are inseparably intertwined as equally vital components of the costs of litigation. The factually complex and protracted nature of civil rights litigation frequently makes it necessary to make sizeable out-of-pocket expenditures which may be as essential to success as the intellectual skills of the attorneys. If these costs are not taxable, and the client, as is often the case, cannot afford to pay for them, they must be borne by counsel, reducing the fees award correspondingly.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'With the exception of routine office overhead normally absorbed by the practicing attorney, all reasonable expenses incurred in case preparation, during the course of litigation, or as an aspect of settlement of the case may be taxed as costs under section 1988' and 'the standard of reasonableness is to be given a liberal interpretation.'”
5 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.