Brown v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2021
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 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 State v. Carter · Dixie State Bank v. Bracken · Brehany v. Nordstrom, Inc. · Pace v. Parrish · Management Services Corp. v. Development Associates
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t has been generally held that a party in whose favor an affirmative judgment is rendered, whether or not the judgment is for less than initially sought in the complaint, is a 'prevailing party' within the meaning of a statute awarding attorney's fees to the prevailing party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The general rule is that when a party who received attorney fees below prevails on appeal, the party is also entitled to fees reasonably incurred on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Bloth parties are entitled to fees when both parties are successful in enforcing different provisions of a contract against the other.”
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.