Barjon v. Dalton’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.3d 496 · 1997
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Lso, Ltd. v. Jay Stroh (2000), Scott Fischer v. Sjb-Pd Inc Svenja Bienlefeld (2000)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Missouri v. Jenkins Ex Rel. Agyei · Bolker v. Commissioner · Chalmers v. City of Los Angeles
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, the relevant community is the forum in which the district court sits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the delay itself was not very long and the amount of fees not very high”
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“if local counsel was unavailable, either because they are unwilling or unable to perform because they lack the degree of experience, expertise, or specialization required to handle properly the case.”
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.