Jacobs v. Mancuso’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 559 · 1987
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 17 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Missouri v. Jenkins Ex Rel. Agyei (1989), Wagenmann v. Adams (1987)
36 federal appellate · 17 district · 3 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
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · City of Riverside v. Rivera · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should not result in a second major litigation.” Hensley, 461 U.S. at 437 , 103 S.Ct. at 1941 . We, like the Court, entertain”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“liability here was so plain ... that, as a practical matter, the risk of not recovering a fee was all but eliminated”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“should be permitted to draw conclusions and make adjustments without full articulation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.