Davidson v. Keenan’s Empirical Analysis
740 F.2d 129 · 1984
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Oliveri v. Thompson (1986), LoSacco v. City of Middletown (1995)
31 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hughes v. Rowe · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“claim was frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless, or [whether] the plaintiff[s] continued to litigate after it clearly became so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“upon motion made after expiration of the specified period .... where the failure to act was the result of excusable neglect.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs.”
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.