Raley v. Fraser’s Empirical Analysis
747 F.2d 287 · 1984
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Pfannstiel v. City of Marion (1990), Foster v. Metropolitan Airports Commission (1990)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Hagans v. Lavine
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“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“grossly disproportionate to the need for 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.