Jensen v. Sawyers’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Daines v. Vincent (2008), IHC Health Services, Inc. v. D & K MANAGEMENT, INC. (2008)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Roth v. United States · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc. · Harris v. McRae
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'broad discretion in determining what constitutes a reasonable fee, and we will consider that determination against an abuse-of-discretion standard.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The award of attorney fees is a matter of law, which we review for correctness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“ferret out a fatal flaw in the evidence” and become a”
2 later decisions 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.