Grano v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 1104 · 1986
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (2001), Independent Federation of Flight Attendants v. Zipes (1989)
42 federal appellate · 15 district · 8 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Hagans v. Lavine · Hanrahan v. Hampton · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Harris v. McRae
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] party may be considered to have prevailed even when the legal action stops short of final appellate, or even initial, judgment due to a settlement or intervening mootness.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]nce a court has already ruled that the claims are actionable--not just colorable--civil rights claims, the question of whether the party meets the statutory requirement of having prevailed on the basis of 'civil rights' claims has been unequivocally answered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“these plaintiffs clearly obtained a significant benefit when they succeeded in ensuring that the voting would take place while the [building] still stood and the initiative still had the potential to mean something.”
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.