Jensen v. Stangel’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 815 · 1985
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Zaldivar v. City of Los Angeles (1986), Miller v. Los Angeles County Board of Education (1987)
26 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 · Pierson v. Ray · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hughes v. Rowe · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to enforce a provision of [42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983], the court in its discretion may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee.”
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.