Odum v. Ab Clark’s Empirical Analysis
748 F.2d 1538 · 1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2016
6 federal appellate ·
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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Hutto v. Finney · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A recent 11th Circuit decision has held: It is well settled law that a section 1988 attorneys’ fees award may run against a public treasury for section 1983 violations by public officers acting in their official capacities even though the public entity is not named as a defendant in the suit, [citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in such suits attorneys’ fees should generally be obtained ‘either directly from the official, in his official capacity, from funds of his agency or under his control, or from the State or local government (■whether or not the agency or government is a named party).’”
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.