Richardson v. Penfold’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 116 · 1990
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 26 Cal. 4th 572 - Flannery v. Prentice (2001), Hyland v. Wonder (1992)
43 federal appellate · 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. § 1988
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Hutto v. Finney · Hanrahan v. Hampton · Hewitt v. Helms · Rhodes v. Stewart
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]echnically, the award of attorney's fees under section 1988 is to the party, not to his lawyer, but it is common to make the award directly to the lawyer where ... the lawyer's contractual entitlement is uncontested.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“once a plaintiff obtains substantive relief that is not defeasible by further proceedings”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is simpler, prompter, and quicker to resolve the issue in the present appeal. Difficulty of envisaging the procedure by which an order sought to be reviewed before the end of the litigation could be reviewed then provides a practical reason for allowing an appeal now.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Travis v. Sullivan
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.