Fish v. St. Cloud State University’s Empirical Analysis
295 F.3d 849 · 2002
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Quigley v. Winter (2010), Warren v. Prejean (2002)
17 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources · Webner v. Titan Distribution, Inc. · Emery v. Hunt
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'multipl[ies] the number of hours reasonably expended by the reasonable hourly rates.' When determining reasonable hourly rates, district courts may rely on their own experience and knowledge of prevailing market rates.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district court was in the best position to assess the work done by counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.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.