Weinstein v. University of Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 1091 · 1987
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Szabo Food Service, Inc. v. Canteen Corp. (1987), Hill v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1987)
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 17 U.S.C. § 103 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 201 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Parratt v. Taylor · Hudson v. Palmer · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]wards of attorneys’ fees induce people to reconsider and ensure that refusals to surrender do not burden the innocent. They also protect the courts-—and derivatively parties in other cases-—-from impositions on their time.... The court has an interest in the orderly conduct of business, an interest independent of the [opposing party]....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“procedural protections are not themselves property”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Many disputes may be compromised by converting the stakes to a common denominator such as money and splitting the dif- ference. New commercial disputes end up in court, because the disputants may readily compromise and move on. Other disputes are harder to resolve because they seem to involve principles for which no compromise is readily apparent. The result may be a private war. A dispute that would be resolved quickly in the commercial world may fester. We have such a dispute. It is about the order in which the names of an article’s authors will be listed.”
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.