Spell v. McDaniel

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining prevailing party when that party succeeds on any significant issue which achieves some of the benefits that party sought

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

27 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Spell v. McDaniel
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-07-24· cited 799×
• Spell v. McDaniel
  Fourth Circuit· 1988-07-26· cited 115×
• Buffington v. Baltimore County
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-07-31· cited 89×
• Unnamed case
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-10-15· cited 82×
• Koster v. Perales
  Second Circuit· 1990-05-10· cited 35×
• Harris v. Marsh
  E.D. North Carolina· 1987-12-28· cited 32×
• Bunn v. Bowen
  E.D. North Carolina· 1986-05-05· cited 30×
• Napier v. Thirty or More Unidentified Federal Agents, Employees or Officers
  Third Circuit· 1988-08-31· cited 26×
• Advo System, Inc. v. Walters
  E.D. Michigan· 1986-06-19· cited 19×
• Edmonds v. United States
  D. South Carolina· 1987-03-24· cited 14×
• Spencer v. General Electric Co.
  E.D. Virginia· 1989-03-01· cited 13×
• Gregg v. Township Committee
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1989-03-30· cited 13×
• Harris v. Marsh
  E.D. North Carolina· 1988-08-31· cited 11×
• Superior Form Builders v. Dan Chase Taxidermy Supply Co.
  E.D. Virginia· 1994-09-16· cited 10×
• Robinson v. Ariyoshi
  D. Hawaii· 1989-01-18· cited 9×
• Certain v. Potter
  M.D. North Carolina· 2004-08-04· cited 7×
• Unnamed case
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-07-24· cited 6×
• Jenkins v. State of Mo.
  W.D. Missouri· 1990-02-26· cited 6×
• Alberti v. Sheriff of Harris County
  S.D. Texas· 1987-10-08· cited 6×
• Morse v. Republican Party of Virginia
  W.D. Virginia· 1997-07-07· cited 5×

Cites

137 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Hensley v. Eckerhart
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-16· cited 17,202×
• Blum v. Stenson
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-21· cited 7,642×
• Parratt v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-18· cited 6,693×
• Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness Society
  Supreme Court· 1975-05-12· cited 4,586×
• Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-01-21· cited 3,561×
• Hutto v. Finney
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-15· cited 2,261×
• Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison
  First Circuit· 1978-07-28· cited 1,054×
• New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Hugh L. Carey, Individually and as Governor of the State of New York
  Second Circuit· 1983-06-15· cited 1,038×
• Dolores J. Copeland, Individually and on Behalf of the Class of All Others Similarly Situated v. F. Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor
  D.C. Circuit· 1980-09-02· cited 989×
• Marek v. Chesny
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-27· cited 923×
• Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-02· cited 904×
• Ramos v. Lamm
  Tenth Circuit· 1983-06-15· cited 753×
• Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-09-28· cited 522×
• Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1983-08-04· cited 409×
• Marvin Jones, on His Own Behalf and on Behalf of Those Similarly Situated v. Fred R. Diamond
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-01-29· cited 381×
• Mary Beth G. v. City of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 1983-11-29· cited 328×
• Northcross v. Board of Education
  Sixth Circuit· 1979-11-23· cited 308×
• Thomas Turpin v. Joseph Mailet
  Second Circuit· 1980-04-08· cited 290×
• John McCann Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. T. Coughlin, Iii, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees
  Second Circuit· 1983-01-06· cited 254×