Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 3 state decisions

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

1. “Many civil rights cases will present only a single claim. In other cases the plaintiffs claims for relief will involve a common core of facts or will be based on related legal theories. Much of counsel’s time will be devoted generally to the litigation as a whole, making it difficult to divide the hours expended on a claim-by-claim basis. Such a lawsuit cannot be viewed as a series of discrete claims. Instead the district court should focus on the significance of the overall relief obtained by the plaintiff in relation to the hours reasonably expended on the litigation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 868 F. Supp. 2d 519 - Lux v. Judd

2. “[A] district court should first identify the number of hours reasonably expended on the litigation and multiply that number by a -reasonable rate. The court then should subtract fees for hours spent on unsuccessful claims unrelated to successful ones. Once the court has subtracted the fees incurred for unsuccessful, unrelated claims, it then awards some percentage of the remaining amount, depending on the degree of success enjoyed by the plaintiff.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 852 F. Supp. 2d 637 - Andrade v. Aerotek, Inc.

3. “legally responsible for relief on the merits.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Roberts v. Mike's Trucking, Ltd.