Atlantic Fish Spotters Ass'n v. Daley’s Empirical Analysis
205 F.3d 488 · 2000
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2022
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Pierce v. Underwood · Perales v. Casillas · F.J. Vollmer Co. v. Magaw · Pirus v. Bowen · Public Service Company of New Hampshire v. Patch
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[this] exception ... must refer to attorneys ‘qualified for the proceedings’ in some specialized sense, rather than just in their general legal competence. We think it refers to attorneys having some distinctive knowledge or specialized skill needful for the litigation in question — as opposed to an extraordinary level of the general lawyerly knowledge and ability useful in all litigation. Examples of the former would be an identifiable practice specialty such as patent law, or knowledge of foreign law or language. Where such qualifications are necessary and can be obtained only at rates in excess of the [$125] cap, reimbursement above that limit is allowed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a tangle of discrete regulations, various precedents ... [b]ut in most cases an otherwise competent lawyer can ... learn enough about the particular controversy to litigate in the area adequately.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he question is not whether counsel's experience in fisheries law is helpful or productive but whether it is essential for competent representation.”
3 later decisions 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.