Gaskill v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
160 F.3d 361 · 1998
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2018
12 federal appellate · 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 Blum v. Stenson · Continental Illinois Securities Litigation: Steinlauf v. Continental Illinois Corporation Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Eiger · Mars Steel Corporation v. Continental Illinois National Bank And Trust Company Of Chicago · Maksym v. Loesch · Camden Condominium Association Inc v. B Dunkle
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a fee is set by a court rather than by contract, the object is to set it at a level that will approximate what the market would set. The judge, in other words, is trying to mimic the market in legal services”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen a class suit produces a fund for the class, it is commonplace to award the lawyers for the class a percentage of the fund.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“lawyers ... in circumstances in which they can reasonably be expected to be compensated,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.