Richmond’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Association of Mexican-American Educators v. California (2000), Bathke v. Casey's General Stores, Inc. (1995)
9 federal appellate · 2 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Farmer v. Arabian American Oil Co. · Boyd v. Ozark Air Lines, Inc. · Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Robinson · Kropp v. Ziebarth
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An award of costs may be reduced or denied because the ... taxable costs of the litigation were disproportionate to the result achieved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“district court has substantial discretion in awarding costs to a prevailing party”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“costs other than attorneys' fees shall be allowed as of course to the prevailing party unless the court otherwise directs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Milton v. Des Moines
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.