Sorenson v. Concannon’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Davis v. City and County San Francisco · Corder v. Gates · Fontaine Davis v. City And County Of San Francisco · Love v. Reilly
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the federal defendant asks this court to assume, contrary to common sense, that the exten~ive settlement negotiations between plaintiffs and the state yielded nothing of use to the ultimate resolution of the litigation. I decline[] to make that assumption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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