Houston v. Cotter’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Farrar v. Hobby · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the range of 'reasonable' attorney fee rates in this district varies depending on the type of case, the nature of the litigation, the size of the firm, and the expertise of its attorneys.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the party must include as part of the request 'an affidavit that the costs claimed are allowable by law, are correctly stated and were necessarily incurred,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Kindle v. Dejana“[f]ees for exemplification and the costs of making copies of any materials where the copies are necessarily obtained for use in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.