Gunter v. Ridgewood Energy Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
223 F.3d 190 · 2000
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 33 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably In Re: Cendant Corporation Litigation (2001), Elcock v. Kmart Corp. (2000)
31 federal appellate · 33 district · 4 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 · Deposit Guaranty National Bank v. Roper · Baskett v. United States · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · Klehr v. Ao Smith Corporation Ao
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the size of the fund created and the number of persons benefitted; (2) the presence or absence of substantial objections by members of the class to the settlement terms and/or fees requested by counsel; (3) the skill and efficiency of the attorneys involved; (4) the complexity and duration of the litigation; (5) the risk of nonpayment; (6) the amount of time devoted to the case by plaintiffs’ counsel; and (7) the awards in similar cases.”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is incumbent upon a district court to make its reasoning and application of the fee-awards jurisprudence clear, so that we, as a reviewing court, have a sufficient basis to review for abuse of discretion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the district court's fee-award opinion is so terse, vague, or conclusory that we have no basis to review it, we must vacate the fee-award order and remand for further proceedings.”
4 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.