Tomazzoli v. Sheedy’s Empirical Analysis
804 F.2d 93 · 1986
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. AIC Security Investigations, Ltd. (1995), Continental Illinois Securities Litigation: Steinlauf v. Continental Illinois Corporation Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Eiger (1992)
47 federal appellate · 3 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · City of Riverside v. Rivera
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is generally unrealistic to expect a trial court to evaluate and rule on every entry in an application.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is no one correct formula for determining a fee award, and therefore the district court's calculation is anything but an arithmetical exercise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he standards for awarding fees under the Civil Rights Attorneys' Fees Award Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1988 , are the same in a Title VII action.”
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.