Krewson v. City of Quincy’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.3d 15 · 1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2016
12 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Farrar v. Hobby · City of Riverside v. Rivera · Freeman v. Package Machinery Co. · Linthicum v. Archambault · Wagenmann v. Adams
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the policy interests underlying fee awards under federal civil rights statutes are similar to those underlying fee awards in Massachusetts civil rights cases, case law under § 1988 provides additional guidance. The Supreme Court has recognized that a plaintiff who obtains relief in a civil rights lawsuit, especially “in the area of individual police misconduct,” acts as a private attorney general deterring future violations and that, therefore, consistent with congressional intent, “reasonable attorney’s fees ... are not conditioned upon and need not be proportionate to an award of money damages.” City of Riverside v. Rivera, 477 U.S. 561, 574-76, 106 S.Ct. 2686, 2694-95 , 91 L.Ed.2d 466 (1986) (upholding $245,456.25 fee award based on jury award of compensatory and punitive damages of $13,300 for federal claims and $20,050 for state claims).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a variety of factors including the nature of the case, the time and labor required, the amount of damages involved, the result obtained, the experience and reputation of the attorney, the usual price charged by other attorneys for similar work, and the amount of awards granted in other cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a request for attorneys’ fees comprises a substantive part of the state-law remedy for a state-law cause of action, the proper rule of decision governing the award is derived from [state], rather than federal, practice.”); Cotton v. Slone, 4 F.3d 176, 180 (2nd Cir.1993) (”
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.