Beach v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
743 F.2d 1303 · 1984
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2008
13 federal appellate · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 1073 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412
Relies on Leeke v. Timmerman · McQuiston v. Marsh · American Constitutional Party v. Munro · Hoang Ha v. Schweiker · Fitzharris v. Wolff
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if his action was a `catalyst' which motivated the defendant to provide the relief originally sought through litigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To determine whether an action was a catalyst, the court must decide what the litigant sought to accomplish and whether his action accomplished it____ The litigant must show a causal connection between his action and the favorable outcome ____ “[A]t a minimum, the lawsuit must have ... prompted the opposing party to take action.””
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.