Clark v. Township of Falls’s Empirical Analysis
890 F.2d 625 · 1989
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Jacqueline Watson v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, Greenville Women's Clinic v. Bryant (2000)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 · Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School District · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Maher v. Gagne · Hewitt v. Helms
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In general, when a judgment in favor of a plaintiff is reversed on the merits, that party is no longer a 'prevailing party' under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 and no longer entitled to attorney's fees under that statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f plaintiffs could establish that their suit was the catalyst for the changes, they were entitled to prevailing party status despite the fact that the district court had ruled against them.”
2 later decisions 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.