Furtado v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · F. D. Rich Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Industrial Lumber Co. · California v. Civil Aeronautics Board · United States Steel Corporation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency · Powell v. Dellums
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““not read this language to mean that Congress intended that every person who could claim an invasion of civil rights, no matter how minor, would be entitled to retain counsel at the defendant’s expense, no matter how great. There must be an element of reason; the fee must not be such as to encourage the overpressing of marginal claims, a by no means idle fear.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Furtado v. Bishop““[A] lawyer is worth his keep vis-a-vis the particular case ... , 5”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Furtado v. Bishop
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.