Child v. Spillane’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.2d 691 · 1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2003
7 federal appellate · 1 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 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 29 U.S.C. § 794A · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Hewitt v. Helms · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Florida v. Royer · Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the [fee] applicant must show that the lawsuit contributed in a significant way to the winning of benefits or relief from the factual/legal condition that the fee claimant has sought to change.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ees may be awarded even where a party's efforts have merely served to a limited extent to expedite the planning and achievements gained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“result[ed] in the [County] doing no more that it was already committed to do.”
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.