Demarest v. Manspeaker’s Empirical Analysis
948 F.2d 655 · 1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2017
9 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Demarest v. Manspeaker · Kay v. Ehrler · Clark v. Dugger · Merrell v. Block · Crooker v. Environmental Protection Agency
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“attempts to enable meritorious litigation to take place, not to reward individuals who obtain legal redress.”
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.