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Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2020
1 district · 1 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 Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Trustees v. Greenough · Central Railroad Banking Co of Georgia v. Pettus · Twin City Sportservice, Inc. v. Charles O. Finley & Co. · Paul, Johnson, Alston & Hunt v. Graulty
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reasonableness is the goal, and mechanical or formulaic application of either method, where it yields an unreasonable result, can be an abuse of discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peter D. Fischel Gerald M. Geiger Philip J. Havlicek Edgar C. Chua v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, a New York Corporation, Peter D. Fischel Gerald M. Geiger Philip J. Havlicek Edgar C. Chua, Herbert Adelman Walter Fleischer Malakoff, Doyle & Finberg, P.C. Dennis J. Woodruff v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, a New York Corporation · In Re Fidelity/micron Securities Litigation“look out for the interests of the beneficiaries, to make sure that they obtain sufficient financial benefit after the lawyers are paid.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peter D. Fischel Gerald M. Geiger Philip J. Havlicek Edgar C. Chua v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, a New York Corporation, Peter D. Fischel Gerald M. Geiger Philip J. Havlicek Edgar C. Chua, Herbert Adelman Walter Fleischer Malakoff, Doyle & Finberg, P.C. Dennis J. Woodruff v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, a New York Corporation · Albert Zucker“`(1) by applying the attorneys' current rates to all hours billed during the course of the litigation; or (2) by using the attorneys' historical rates and adding a prime rate enhancement.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peter D. Fischel Gerald M. Geiger Philip J. Havlicek Edgar C. Chua v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, a New York Corporation, Peter D. Fischel Gerald M. Geiger Philip J. Havlicek Edgar C. Chua, Herbert Adelman Walter Fleischer Malakoff, Doyle & Finberg, P.C. Dennis J. Woodruff v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, a New York Corporation · Fischel
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.