Hatfield v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 717 · 1989
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Sheppard v. Riverview Nursing Center, Inc. (1996), Jenkins ex rel. Jenkins v. Missouri (1997)
18 federal appellate · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 2520 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 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 · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School District
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It follows that one who succeeds in obtaining an injunction under that Title should ordinarily recover an attorney's fee unless special circumstances would render such an award unjust.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“) (citing Newman v. Piggie Park Enters., Inc., 390 U.S. 400 , 402 n. 4, 88 S.Ct. 964, 966 n. 4, 19 L.Ed.2d 1263 (1968) (per curiam)); Wheatley v. Ford, 679 F.2d 1037 (2d Cir.1982) (that an action provided a private benefit to a plaintiff rather than a public benefit to a class of similarly situated persons is not a special circumstance to deny § 1988 attorney's fees); Staten v. Housing Auth., 638 F.2d 599 (3d Cir.1980) (that the case was”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appellate review of a denial of attorney's fees under Sec. 1988 is governed by the abuse of discretion standard, but a district court's discretion in denying attorney's fees to prevailing parties is narrow.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. A.J., by His Mother and Next Friend, L.B., on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. David Kierst, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Juvenile Officer Jim Morrison, in His Official Capacity as Director of Residential Services Sherman Williams, in His Official Capacity as Director of Detention Judge Edith L. Messina, in Her Official Capacity as Chief Administrative Officer of Juvenile Detention and as Judge of the Juvenile Division of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, (Two Cases) · Aj Lb v. Kierst L
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.