Williams v. MGM-Pathe Communications Co.’s Empirical Analysis
129 F.3d 1026 · 1997
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Chun v. Board of Trustees (2005), 82 Cal. App. 4th 19 - Lealao v. Beneficial California, Inc. (2000)
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Boeing Co. v. Van Gemert · Evans v. Jeff D. Ex Rel. Johnson · Six (6) Mexican Workers v. Arizona Citrus Growers · Nelson v. Pima Community College · 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendants here knew, because it was in the settlement agreement, that the class attorneys would seek to recover fees based on the entire $4.5 million fund. The Defendants had some responsibility to negotiate at the outset for a smaller settlement fund if they wished to limit the fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For more than two decades, the Ninth Circuit has set the 'benchmark for an attorneys' fee award in a successful class action [at] twenty-five percent of the entire common fund.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“district court abused its discretion by basing the fee on the class members' claims against the fund rather than on a percentage of the entire fund or on the lodestar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.