L'ESPERANCE v. Benware’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Monahan v. GMAC Mortgage Corp. (2005), Electric Man, Inc. v. Charos (2006)
2 district · 61 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 · City of Riverside v. Rivera · Brueckner v. Norwich University · Crump v. P & C Food Markets, Inc. · Bruntaeger v. Zeller
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a court finds that the [CFA] has been violated, it is not within the court's discretion to determine whether to award such fees . . . but rather its task is to determine what constitutes reasonable fees in each instance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Plaintiffs’ lawsuit is not one which can be viewed as a series of discrete claims so that the hours expended can be divided on a claim-by-claim basis. In the practice of law, it is quite common to have several claims arise out of a common core of facts____The court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the cases involved a common core of facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the novelty of the legal issue, the experience of the attorney, and the results obtained in the litigation.”
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.