McDonald v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
748 F.2d 1055 · 1984
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Kiely Construction, L.L.C. v. City of Red Lodge Ex Rel. Red Lodge City Council (2002), Hennigan v. Ouachita Parish School Board (1985)
27 federal appellate · 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 20 U.S.C. § 1681 (§ 901 of the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972) · 28 U.S.C. § 1341 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 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 · Maher v. Gagne · Smith v. Robinson · Russo v. New York · Kimbrough v. Arkansas Activities Ass'n
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat purpose does not alter the requirement that a claim for which fees are awarded be reasonably related to the plaintiffs ultimate success. It simply authorizes a [trial] court to assume that the plaintiff has prevailed on his fee-generating claim and to award fees appropriate to that success.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“since 42 U.S.C. § 1988 , `does not authorize an award of fees to a party who recovers on a pendent state claim but loses on his civil rights claim.'”
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.