Jeff D. v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
743 F.2d 648 · 1984
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011 · most notably Evans v. Jeff D. Ex Rel. Johnson (1986), Lieb v. Topstone Industries, Inc. (1986)
24 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a stipulated waiver of all attorney's fees obtained solely as a condition for obtaining relief for the class should not be accepted by the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[w]hen attorney's fees are negotiated as part of a class action settlement, a conflict frequently exists between the class lawyers' interest in compensation and the class members' interest in relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a successful section 1983 claimant `should ordinarily recover an attorney's fee unless special circumstances would render such an award unjust,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.