Nemeroff Dds v. Abelson’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 652 · 1983
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Gilbert v. Board of Medical Examiners (1987), Cruz v. Savage (1990)
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · Nemeroff v. Abelson · New York v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission · Dopp v. Franklin National Bank
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with caution to make sure that plaintiffs are not deterred from suing to enforce their rights, especially when enforcement of those rights vindicates the Constitution or acts of Congress”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prevailing defendant is entitled to an award of attorney's fees”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should withstand appellate scrutiny unless appellants can either vitiate the court's critical factual findings or show that the decision to award [or to deny] attorney's fees exceeded a reasonable and restrained exercise of discretion.”
1 later decision 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.