Harris v. Marhoefer’s Empirical Analysis
24 F.3d 16 · 1994
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Abrams v. Lightolier Inc. (1995), Hemmings v. Tidyman's Inc. (2002)
32 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1821 · 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School District · West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey · Hughey v. United States
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may recover as part of the award of attorney's fees those out-of-pocket expenses that `would normally be charged to a fee paying client.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“recover as part of the award of attorney's fees those out-of-pocket expenses that 'would normally be charged to a fee paying client.' " Harris v. Marhoefer, 24 F.3d 16 , 19 (9th Cir.1994) (quoting Chalmers v. City of Los Angeles, 796 F.2d 1205 , 1216 n. 7 (9th Cir.1986), reh'g denied and opinion amended, 808 F.2d 1373 (9th Cir.1987). As we explained in Harris, "reasonable expenses, though greater than taxable costs, may be proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“out-of-pocket expenses that 'would normally be charged to a fee paying client' " and holding that facts of the case demonstrated the reasonableness of costs for "service of summons and complaint, service of trial subpoenas, fee for defense expert at deposition, postage, investigator, copying costs, hotel bills, meals, messenger service and employment record reproduction”
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.