Kay v. Ehrler’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 967 · 1990
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014
7 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Poythress v. Kessler · Cox v. United States Department of Justice · Ellis v. Cassidy · Loudermill v. Cleveland Board of Education · Johnson v. United States
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n attorney who represents himself in litigation may have the necessary legal expertise but is unlikely to have the 'detached and objective perspective' necessary to fulfill the aims of the Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Kay v. Ehrler“to relieve plaintiffs with legitimate claims of the burden of legal costs”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Kay v. Ehrler“a paying relationship between an attorney and a client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kay v. Ehrler
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.