Cauley v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 769 · 1985
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Unioil Inc v. Ef Hutton & Co Inc (1986), Ordower v. Feldman (1987)
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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 Santoni v. United States · New York v. Ferber · American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Powe v. City of Chicago · LeCompte v. Mr. Chip, 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fees are not awarded when a plaintiff obtains a dismissal with prejudice ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he purpose of awarding attorneys' fees on a voluntary dismissal without prejudice is to compensate the defendant for the unnecessary expense that the litigation has caused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the fee award should reimburse the defendant for expenses incurred in preparing work product that will not be useful in subsequent litigation of the same claim.”
2 later decisions 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.