Graves v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
700 F.2d 220 · 1983
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Rendine v. Pantzer (1995), Abrams v. Baylor College of Medicine (1986)
20 federal appellate · 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. § 1973L (§ 14 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. · United States v. MacDonald · Central Illinois Public Service Co. v. United States · Copeland v. Marshall
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder the rubric of `the contingent nature of success' the district court should appraise the professional burden undertaken ÔÇö that is, the probability or likelihood of success, viewed at the time of filing suit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“explain the findings and reasons upon which the award is based, including an indication of how each of the twelve factors in Johnson affected his decision”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The 'lodestar' is equal to the number of hours reasonably expended multiplied by the prevailing hourly rate in the community for similar work. The lodestar is then adjusted to reflect other factors such as the contingent nature of the suit and the quality of the representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lawler v. Teofan
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.