Cole v. Wodziak’s Empirical Analysis
169 F.3d 486 · 1999
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Richard M. Perlman and Perlman Marketplace Investors v. Samuel Zell (1999), Tuf Racing Products, Inc. v. American Suzuki Motor Corp. (2000)
24 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Farrar v. Hobby · City of Riverside v. Rivera · City of Burlington v. Dague · Marek v. Chesny
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In ordinary private litigation, however, a fee exceeding the damages usually is not “reasonable.” 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a paltry jury award . . . implies that the only reasonable fee is zero”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Daley
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.