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← 272 F.3d 1042 - Steven Emery

Steven Emery’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
2
states following
February 2024
most recently cited

5 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably In Re South Dakota Microsoft Antitrust Litigation (2005), Baker v. John Morrell & Co. (2003)

5 district · 3 state decisions

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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 · Koon v. United States · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Allen v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 788 · Avalon Cinema Corp. v. Thompson

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In a case where the plaintiff does not use local counsel, the district court is not limited to the local hourly rate, if the plaintiff has shown that, in spite of his diligent, good faith efforts, he was unable to find local counsel able and willing to take the case.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Fund v. Reynolds · 783 F. Supp. 2d 1079 - Ladd v. Pickering
  2. “A reasonable hourly rate is usually the ordinary rate for similar work in the community where the case has been litigated.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Fund v. Reynolds · 344 F. Supp. 3d 1047 - Midwest Disability Initiative v. Nelmatt, LLC
  3. “[t]he starting point in determining attorney fees is the lodestar, which is calculated by multiplying the number of hours reasonably expended by the reasonable hourly rat[e].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Corbett

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.