20 Mass. App. Ct. 322 - Mulhern v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2003
4 district · 2 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Grendel's Den, Inc. v. Larkin · Cummings v. National Shawmut Bank of Boston · Newton Girl Scout Council, Inc. v. Massachusetts Turnpike Authority · First National Bank of Boston v. Brink
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot emphasize too strongly the importance of reasonable time records, made contemporaneously with the work, as showing whether the time was prudently expended, involved duplication, or had a reasonable relation to the issues. Such records, of course, are very helpful in establishing that the time was really expended, an issue on which an attorney should be prepared to satisfy his client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an outstanding trial lawyer ... perhaps the best trial lawyer”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mulhern v. Roach
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.