Menke v. Monchecourt’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2021
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · 142 Ill. App. 3d 550 - Warren v. LeMay · Florasynth, Inc. v. Pickholz · Green v. Humphrey Elevator & Truck Co. · Wilsmann v. Stearns
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.
“makes no provision for taking of evidence on an issue such as attorneys' fees, ... the court [would be] powerless to receive evidence concerning attorneys' fees and award an[y] amount it would find appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absent statutory authorization or contractual agreement between the parties, the prevailing American rule is that each party in federal litigation pays his own attorneys' - 20 - fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is nothing in the [FAA] itself that would authorize a district court to go beyond confirming an arbitrator['s] award and independently award additional attorneys' fees.”
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.