Collins v. Burg’s Empirical Analysis
169 F.3d 563 · 1999
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2012
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Kahn v. Grant · Dennis v. Dennis · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Liberty Mortgage Co. v. Frey · Admiral Theatre Corporation v. Douglas Theatre Company Jsb
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are especially reluctant to substitute our judgment for that of the district court in the matter of appropriate attorney's fees, because the district court is in the best position to determine whether hours were reasonably expended and whether an attorney's hourly rates are reasonable within the context of the relevant community.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unable to offer the requisite medical evidence relevant to her distress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“satisfied that the cases requiring medically diagnosable distress”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.