Brody v. Hellman’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2025
2 district · 18 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 Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Boeing Co. v. Van Gemert · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is designed to be greater than the reasonable value of the services ... to reflect the fact that attorneys will realize no return for their investment of time and expenses in cases they lose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] party seeking costs must provide the court with sufficient information and supporting documentation to allow a judge to make a reasoned decision for each cost item presented.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“entitled to have the trial court make findings sufficient to disclose the basis for its decision to award costs and to support the amount awarded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Hancock
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.