Maloney v. City of Marietta’s Empirical Analysis
822 F.2d 1023 · 1987
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Dillard v. City of Greensboro (2000), Hastert v. Illinois State Board of Election Commissioners (1993)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973L (§ 14 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Hanrahan v. Hampton · Stein v. Reynolds Securities, Inc.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) where the plaintiff's action asserted essentially a private tort claim for money damages, (2) where the plaintiff was not instrumental in achieving the remedy sought, (3) where plaintiffs challenged an antiquated, rarely enforced statute, and (4) where the plaintiff through a settlement or consent order agreed to compromise his right to pursue subsequent fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“should ordinarily recover an attorney's fee unless special circumstances would render an award unjust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Love v. Deal
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.