Polonski’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Joanna Pacitti Joseph Pacitti Stella Pacitti v. Macy's (1999), Thomas v. City of North Las Vegas (2006)
2 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 Foman v. Davis · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Hall v. Cole · Summit Valley Industries, Inc. v. Local 112, United Brotherhood of Carpenters
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.
“[W]e can exercise jurisdiction over orders not specified in the Notice of Appeal if: '(1) there is a connection between the specified and unspecified orders; (2) the intention to appeal the unspecified order is apparent; and (3) the opposing party is not prejudiced and has a full opportunity to brief the issues.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the common benefit doctrine, an award of attorney's fees is appropriate where "the plaintiff's successful litigation confers 'a substantial benefit on the members of an ascertainable class, and where the court's jurisdiction over the subject matter of the suit makes possible an award that will operate to spread the costs proportionately among them.' " Hall , 412 U.S. at 5, 93 S.Ct. at 1946 (quoting Mills [v. Electric Auto-Lite Co.] , 396 U.S. [375] at 393-94, 90 S.Ct. [616] at 626-27 [ 24 L.Ed.2d 593 ] [ (1970) ] ). This test entails satisfying three distinct elements: (1) the plaintiff must confer a substantial benefit; (2) to members of an ascertainable class; and (3) the court must ensure that the costs are proportionally spread among that class. Because this test may be read literally to include every lawsuit against any institutional defendant, we have refined this language further. In Marshall v. United Steelworkers , 666 F.2d 845 , 848 (3d Cir. 1981), this court inquired: (1) whether the benefits may be traced with some accuracy; (2) whether the class of beneficiaries are readily identifiable; and, (3) whether there is a reasonable basis for confidence that the costs may be shifted with some precision to those benefitting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here “subsequent appellate proceedings manifest the appellant’s intent to appeal the attorney’s fees issue,” and where “the opposing party had and exercised a full opportunity to brief the issue and did not raise any claim of prejudice,” this Court has found a notice of appeal specifying one attorney’s fee order sufficient to confer jurisdiction over an appeal from another unspecified attorney’s fee order in the same 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.