Baxter v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2017
20 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
Relies on In Re Burrus · Little v. Wachovia Bank and Trust Company · Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. v. Schneider · In Re the Will of Cox
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff first contends defendants’ claim for attorneys’ fees was time-barred. Citing FR. Civ. P. 54(d)(2)(B) requiring motions for attorneys’ fees to be filed within fourteen days following the entry of judgment, plaintiff argues we should apply a “rule of reasonableness” and find that it was violated by the “unreasonable and prejudicial” two year time period between the partial summary judgment order and the attorneys’ fee motions. The fourteen day rule contained in F.R. Civ. P. 54(d)(2)(B) clearly does not apply to litigation pending in our State courts and the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure contain neither a counterpart to F.R. Civ. P. 54(d)(2)(B) nor a deadline for filing a'motion for costs and fees. Rather, “the usual practice in awarding attorneys’ fees is to make the award at the end of the litigation when all the work has been done and all the results are known.” . . . [T]he litigation was ended on 8 July 1998 when plaintiff’s petition for discretionary review was denied by the North Carolina Supreme Court. Dillard’s amended motion for costs was filed 14 September 1998, and the Town’s motion for costs was filed 10 August 1998, both within a reasonable time after the “results were known.” We hold the motions for costs were not time-barred. ‘”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as so provided by statute, attorneys' fees are not allowable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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