Smith’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Lindell v. Riddle and Deborah L. Irvine (2001), Battery One-Stop Ltd. v. Atari Corp. (1994)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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
Relies on Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hughes v. Rowe · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Hughes v. Repko · Carrion v. Yeshiva University
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In sum, a district court may in its discretion award attorney's fees to a prevailing defendant in a Title VII case upon a finding that the plaintiff's action was frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation, even though not brought in subjective bad faith.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Application of these standards requires inquiry into the plaintiffs’ basis for bringing suit. Awards to prevailing defendants will depend on the factual circumstances of each case. While a showing of bad faith is not required for an award of attorneys fees to a prevailing defendant, such a showing would justify an award of fees. Additionally, courts have awarded attorneys fees to prevailing defendants where no evidence supports the plaintiff’s position or the defects in the suit are of such magnitude that the plaintiff’s ultimate failure is clearly apparent from the beginning or at some significant point in the proceedings after which the plaintiff continues to litigate. As the Supreme Court emphasized in Hughes, however, the mere fact that allegations prove legally insufficient to require a trial does not, for that reson alone, render a complaint groundless under Christiansburg, 449 U.S. at 16, 101 S.Ct. at 179.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of sections 1981,1982,1983,1985, and 1986 of this title, ..., or Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the court, 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
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.