Chang v. Chen’s Empirical Analysis
95 F.3d 27 · 1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 2014
1 federal appellate ·
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 Carnegie v. United States · Brame v. United States · O'Donnell v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. · Myers v. United States · Major Media of the Southeast, Inc. v. City of Raleigh
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prevailing defendants cannot recover attorneys' fees pursuant to § 1964(c) of the RICO statute because they were prevailing defendant in this action. That provision only permits prevailing plaintiffs to recover fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Courts have never construed [Section 1964(c)] of the RICO statute as precluding a prevailing defendant from recovering attorneys' fees when authorized elsewhere.”
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.