State Ex Rel. Corbin v. Tocco’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2020
23 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 Blum v. Stenson · National Association of Concerned Veterans v. Secretary of Defense Green · Rodriguez v. Taylor · Schweiger v. China Doll Restaurant, Inc. · Illinois v. Sangamo Construction Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial court here followed the general rule for calculating attorney’s fee awards made pursuant to a statute authorizing the recovery of “reasonable” fees. This rule, used particularly in civil rights, antitrust cases and other public benefit cases, provides that prevailing market rates and not the actual costs of legal services are the appropriate measure for an award of reasonable attorney’s fees, even when the party being awarded the fees has been represented by salaried government or public non-profit counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Corry“award may not exceed the amount paid or agreed to be paid”). Rather, both Title VII and the ACRA require only that the fees awarded be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.