Tasby v. Wright

How courts have described this case

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

• defining “the contingent nature of the employment, i.e., the recovery of attorney’s fees by applicants was wholly contingent upon their prevailing in the litigation____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• City of Houston v. Harris County Outdoor Advertising Ass'n
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-06-16· cited 84×
• Williamsburg Fair Housing Committee v. Ross-Rodney Housing Corp.
  S.D. New York· 1984-10-26· cited 54×
• Vaughns v. Bd. of Educ. of Prince George's County
  D. Maryland· 1984-11-09· cited 38×
• Harris v. Marsh
  E.D. North Carolina· 1987-12-28· cited 32×
• Spell v. McDaniel
  E.D. North Carolina· 1985-07-10· cited 32×
• United States v. Washington
  W.D. Washington· 1985-12-31· cited 27×
• Lawler v. Teofan
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-02-10· cited 26×
• United States v. State of Washington
  W.D. Washington· 1985-01-01· cited 22×
• Alberti v. Sheriff of Harris County
  S.D. Texas· 1987-10-08· cited 6×
• Leroy v. City of Houston
  S.D. Texas· 1986-08-01· cited 3×
• Feher v. Department of Labor & Industrial Relations
  D. Hawaii· 1983-03-17· cited 3×
• In Re Stirling Homex Corp. Securities Litigation
  Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation· 1977-12-28· cited 3×
• Lawler v. Teofan
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-01-14· cited 3×
• Alexander v. Hill
  W.D. North Carolina· 1983-08-17· cited 2×

Cites

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

• Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-01-21· cited 3,561×
• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 2,178×
• Bradley v. School Bd. of Richmond
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-15· cited 1,967×
• Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1968-03-18· cited 1,644×
• City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corporation, Manhattan-Ward, Incorporated v. Grinnell Corporation, 1225 Vine Street Building, Inc. v. Grinnell Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1974-03-13· cited 1,333×
• Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison
  First Circuit· 1978-07-28· cited 1,054×
• Keyes v. School Dist. No. 1, Denver
  Supreme Court· 1973-10-09· cited 667×
• Marvin Jones, on His Own Behalf and on Behalf of Those Similarly Situated v. Fred R. Diamond
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-01-29· cited 381×
• Familias Unidas, an Unincorporated Association, and Irma Torrez v. Dolph Briscoe
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-06-18· cited 356×
• Unnamed case
  First Circuit· 1977-01-10· cited 333×
• Northcross v. Board of Education
  Sixth Circuit· 1979-11-23· cited 308×
• Washington v. Seattle School District No. 1
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-30· cited 301×
• Wise v. Lipscomb
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-22· cited 284×
• Monroe v. Board of Commissioners of Jackson
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-27· cited 280×
• Baddock v. American Benefit Life Insurance
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-02· cited 244×
• Grunin v. International House of Pancakes
  Eighth Circuit· 1975-03-17· cited 237×
• Mitchell v. Ingram
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-04· cited 231×
• William Knighton, Cross-Appellant v. John C. Watkins, Cross-Appellees
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-05-07· cited 224×
• Morrow v. Dillard
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-09-29· cited 189×
• Hughes v. Repko
  Third Circuit· 1978-05-12· cited 181×