Spell v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 762 · 1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Buffington v. Baltimore County (1990), Rum Creek Coal Sales, Inc. v. Caperton (1994)
10 federal appellate · 7 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
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 · Blum v. Stenson · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Northcross v. Board of Education
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party ... a reasonable attorney's fee as part of costs.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the amounts charged to [plaintiff] Spell by his multiple appellate counsel represent a vast duplication of endeavors already performed at the trial level,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James Kenneth Goodwin Eddie Earl Hallman v. James R. Metts, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Lexington County, South Carolina Vernon O. Maxwell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Lexington County Deputy Sheriff, and Ralph Bishop, Individually and D/B/A Bishop Salvage Company, James Kenneth Goodwin Eddie Earl Hallman v. James R. Metts, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Lexington County, South Carolina Vernon O. Maxwell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Lexington County Deputy Sheriff, and Ralph Bishop, Individually and D/B/A Bishop Salvage Company · Goodwin“petition presents such an inflated expenditure of time that it is impossible for this court to cull the justified from the unjustified,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James Kenneth Goodwin Eddie Earl Hallman v. James R. Metts, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Lexington County, South Carolina Vernon O. Maxwell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Lexington County Deputy Sheriff, and Ralph Bishop, Individually and D/B/A Bishop Salvage Company, James Kenneth Goodwin Eddie Earl Hallman v. James R. Metts, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Lexington County, South Carolina Vernon O. Maxwell, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Lexington County Deputy Sheriff, and Ralph Bishop, Individually and D/B/A Bishop Salvage Company · Goodwin
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.