Browning v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corporation, Manhattan-Ward, Incorporated v. Grinnell Corporation, 1225 Vine Street Building, Inc. v. Grinnell Corporation · Desimone v. Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, Inc. · 465 F. Supp. 261 - Mid-Hudson Legal Services v. G & U, INC. · 621 F. Supp. 27 - Bogosian v. Gulf Oil Corp. · 447 F. Supp. 607 - Boe v. Colello
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is possible to spend an enormous amount of time on relatively and objectively trivial and inconsequential matters either through a failure to appreciate the overall place in the total engagement of a particular segment, or through lack of basic fundamental knowledge of the subject matter, or some other reason. Consequently, before the matter is allowed to sweep the costs out of proportion to the subject matter it is incumbent on counsel to discriminately select his activities consistent with the requirements of an engagement, but with a realistic awareness that a case may not be worth what the meter will tally up to if left to run without restraint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carvel v. Godley
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.