Tanya Libby, by Her Father and Next Friend, Charles F. Libby v. Illinois High School Association’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2019
6 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School District · Hanrahan v. Hampton · Hewitt v. Helms · United States v. Security Industrial Bank
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because that court is particularly well-qualified to make the partially subjective findings necessary for an award of fees and to perform the balancing of equities that is an integral part of the proceeding for an award of fees.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A plaintiff who obtains provisional relief, such as a TRO, becomes a prevailing party only if that relief was a determination on the merits or acted as a catalyst to obtain concessions from the appellee, but not where the grant of provisional relief merely preserves the status quo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether a party who obtains a temporary restraining order just prior to a case becoming moot can nonetheless be a 'prevailing party' for purposes of an award of attorney's fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.