Wakefield v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 482 · 1988
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2007
6 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Maher v. Gagne · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Evans v. Jeff D. Ex Rel. Johnson · Prandini v. National Tea Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are in full agreement with the Third Circuit's resolution of both the El Club Del Barrio and Ashley cases. Waiver of attorney's fees should not be presumed from a silent record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the original agreements had included language referring to attorneys' fees, but upon objection the language was deleted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“costs or expenses of any nature whatsoever.”
1 later decision 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.