Rolland v. Cellucci’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 district · 1 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is by no means true that because Plaintiffs only achieved about seventy percent of the fees sought, only seventy percent of the hours spent on their fee application was reasonable. Only an analysis of Plaintiffs’ time records can determine the reasonableness of the hours claims. Second, in light of the figures mentioned, it can hardly be said that Plaintiffs’ success was “limited.” While the amount awarded might have been thirty percent less than the amount sought, it was more than twice the amount which Defendant argued ought to be awarded.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 765 F. Supp. 2d 75 - Rolland v. Patrick

2. “as long as Plaintiffs pursue matters without court intervention, their reasonable [monitoring] efforts may be compensated. If they seek court intervention via a paragraph thirty-two motion and prevail, that effort too is compensa-ble. If, however, Plaintiffs unsuccessfully seek such court intervention, that effort is not compensable, particularly when it does not present “a common core of facts” to successful claims independently pursued.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Rolland v. Romney