Campbell v. Bowlin’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.2d 484 · 1984
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Cobb v. Miller (1987), Hansen v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. (1984)
25 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Edelman v. Jordan · Wood v. Strickland · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[White and Knighton ] clearly establish that the question of attorneys' fees is a collateral issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cruz v. Wb Hauck · Cobb v. Miller
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.