Masonry Masters, Inc. v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
105 F.3d 708 · 1997
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Sorenson v. Mink (2001), Kerin v. United States Postal Service (2000)
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Pierce v. Underwood · Missouri v. Jenkins Ex Rel. Agyei · Library of Congress v. Shaw · Lane v. Pena Secretary of Transportation · United States v. N. Y. Rayon Importing Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall not be awarded in excess of $125 per hour unless ... a special factor ... justifies a higher fee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Interest and a delay factor share an identical function. They are designed to compensate for the belated receipt of money.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sorenson v. Mink“can never be enhanced for delay as a matter of law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Dixon v. Comm'r
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.