Daffron v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(b) Attorney's fees In any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of sections 1981, 1981a, 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1986 of this title ... the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Silverman v. Villegas · Nagy Ex Rel. Nagy v. Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corp.

2. “under § 1988 referred to in the parties' settlement agreement may include attorney's fees because the Appellees, in drafting the agreement, failed to specifically exclude attorney's fees from those costs and the agreement was, at best, ambiguous on the subject. We reversed and remanded the case to the trial court”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Daffron v. Snyder

3. “the 'relief giving rise to a party's status as a prevailing party need not be in the form of a legal judgment on the merits against the opposing party, but may instead arise from a consent judgment, such as that entered pursuant to Trial Rule 68.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Delgado v. Boyles