Ruffin v. Great Dane Trailers’s Empirical Analysis
969 F.2d 989 · 1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2021
8 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School District · Hewitt v. Helms · Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison · Rhodes v. Stewart
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The touchstone of the prevailing party inquiry must be the material alteration of the legal relationship of the parties in a manner which Congress sought to promote in the fee statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“now protect his rights through a civil contempt proceeding in the event that [the defendant's] compliance with the court's injunction is not forthcoming,”
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.