Davis v. Locke’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 1208 · 1991
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Skrtich v. Thornton (2002), Sims v. Metropolitan Dade County (1992)
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Malley v. Briggs · Blum v. Stenson · Whitley v. Albers
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Many civil rights cases will present only a single claim. In other cases the plaintiffs claims for relief will involve a common core of facts or will be based on related legal theories. Much of counsel’s time will be devoted generally to the litigation as a whole, making it difficult to divide the hours expended on a elaim-by-claim basis. Such a lawsuit cannot be viewed as a series of discrete claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The hourly rate must be determined with reference to prevailing market rates in the relevant community for 'lawyers of reasonably comparable skill experience, and reputation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Unlike most private tort litigants, a civil rights plaintiff seeks to vindicate important civil and constitutional rights that cannot be valued solely in monetary terms.'”
1 later decision 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.