Joseph Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
28 F.3d 1056 · 1994
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Robinson v. City of Edmond (1998), Jenkins ex rel. Jenkins v. Missouri (1997)
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison · Copeland v. Marshall
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hese statutes “were not designed as a form of economic relief to improve the financial lot of attorneys, nor were they intended to replicate exactly the fee an attorney could earn through a private fee arrangement with his client. Instead, the aim of such statutes was to enable private parties to obtain legal help in seeking redress for injuries resulting from the actual or threatened violation of specific federal laws.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While the degree of success plays a part in the overall analysis [of postdecree attorney fees], we think a more important inquiry is whether the work done was necessary to achieve the final result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. City of Tulsa · Johnson“) (emphasis added); Joseph A. v. New Mexico Dep't of Human Servs., 28 F.3d 1056 , 1060 (10th Cir.1994) (stating that fees are compensable only for work that is”
2 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.