Associated General Contractors, San Diego Chapter, Inc. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.3d 926 · 1996
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2016
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 50 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · New York State Conference of Blue Cross & Blue Shield Plans v. Travelers Insurance · Wilder v. Virginia Hospital Assn. · Doerr v. Doerr · Golden State Transit Corp. v. City of Los Angeles
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]reemption of state law under the Supremacy Clause — being grounded not on individual rights but instead on considerations of power — will not support an action under section 1983, and will not, therefore, support a claim for attorneys' fees under section 1988.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court reviews de novo any elements of legal analysis and statutory interpretation involved in an attorney fees decision.”
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.