Webb v. Ada County’s Empirical Analysis
285 F.3d 829 · 2002
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020 · most notably Edwards v. Marin Park, Inc. (2004), Torres-Rivera v. O'Neill-Cancel (2008)
20 federal appellate · 12 district ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3626 (§ 20409 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Bill Martin Director Michigan Department of Correctionss v. Everett Hadix · Chalmers v. City of Los Angeles · Gates
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) In any action brought by a prisoner who is confined to any jail, prison, or other correctional facility, in which attorney’s fees are authorized under section 1988 of this title, such fees shall not be awarded, except to the extent that— (A) the fee was directly and reasonably incurred in proving an actual violation of the plaintiffs rights protected by a statute pursuant to which a fee may be awarded under section 1988 of this title; and (B) (i) the amount of the fee is proportionately related to the court ordered relief for the 'violation; or (ii) the fee was directly and reasonably incurred in enforcing the relief . ordered for the violation. (2) Whenever a monetary judgment is awarded in an action described in paragraph (1), a portion of the judgment (not to exceed 25 percent) shall be applied to satisfy the amount of attorney’s fees awarded against the defendant. If the award of attorney’s fees is not greater than 150 percent of the judgment, the excess shall be paid by the defendant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a postjudgment fee request could only be granted if the attorney’s services were directly linked to a discrete constitutional violation, fees incurred “in enforcing the relief’ that the court had ordered because of demonstrated previous constitutional violations, could" not be awarded. To the contrary, when subsections (A) and (B) [of the PLRA] are read together, it is apparent that Congress intended that a' plaintiff is entitled to fees incurred in enforcing a judgment entered upon proof that the plaintiffs constitutional rights had been violated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carruthers v. Israel“The district court has a great deal of discretion in determining the reasonableness of the fee and, as a general rule, we defer to its determination, including its decision regarding the reasonableness of the hours claimed by the prevailing party.”
1 later decision 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.