Keith v. Volpe’s Empirical Analysis
833 F.2d 850 · 1987
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Walker v. U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (1996), Kim v. Fujikawa (1989)
31 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 23 U.S.C. § 128 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Hutto v. Finney · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Maher v. Gagne · 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to cover those children not committed but who voluntarily enter the system. The plain reading of the Stipulation does not exclude these children. C. ATTORNEY'S FEES 66 The statutory basis for the attorney fee awards is the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1988. The section permits an award of attorney's fees to the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a finding of contempt or obstruction of implementation is not a prerequisite to an award of attorney fees for reasonable post-judgment monitoring of a consent decree”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This standard applies both to the district court's decision to award fees and to its determination of the amount of fees.”
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.