Lefemine v. Wideman’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.3d 551 · 2014
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Farrar v. Hobby · City of Riverside v. Rivera · Pulliam v. Allen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts have universally recognized that [the] special circumstances exception is very narrowly limited.” Doe v. Bd. of Educ. of Baltimore Cnty., 165 F.3d 260, 264 (4th Cir.1998) (quotation marks and citation omitted). Indeed, “[o]nly on rare occasions does a case present such circumstances.... ” Id. See also, e.g., DeJesus Nazario v. Morris Rodriguez, 554 F.3d 196, 200 (1st Cir.2009) (stating that the special circumstances justifying denial of attorneys’ fees are “few and far between”).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Civil Rights -Attorney’s Fees Awards Act of 1976 authorizes the award of ‘a reasonable attorney’s fee’ to ‘the prevailing party’ in certain civil rights actions, including suits brought under Section 1983.” Lefemine v. Wideman, 758 F.3d 551, 555 (4th Cir.2014) (citing 42 U.S.C. § 1988 (b)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress enacted § 1988 specifically because it found that the private market for legal services failed to provide many victims of civil rights violations with effective access to the judicial process.”
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.