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Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
February 2020
most recently cited

1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Charles I. Friedman, P.C. v. Microsoft Corp. (2006), 366 F. Supp. 2d 912 - In Re HPL TECHNOLOGIES, INC SECURITIES LITIGATION (2005)

1 state decisions

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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 City of Burlington v. Dague · Boeing Co. v. Van Gemert · Baker Thomas v. General Motors Corporation · Ed. Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., a Corporation, Richard A. Perkins, Counsel for Ed Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., a Corporation, H. O'Neil Shanks, and Norman Stevans, Richard A. Perkins, Counsel For · Goldberger v. Integrated Resources, Inc.

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

  1. “(1) the time and labor required; (2) the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved; (3) the skill requisite to perform the legal service properly; (4) the preclusion of other employment by the attorney due to acceptance of the case; (5) the customary fee; (6) whether the fee is fixed or contingent; (7) time limitations imposed by the client or the circumstances; (8) the amount involved and the results obtained; (9) the experience, reputation, and ability of the attorneys; (10) the “undesirability” of the case; (11) the nature and length of the professional relationship with the client; and (12) awards in similar cases.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. SCHWARM v. Craighead
  2. “(1) attorneys take a case with the expectation that they will receive a risk enhancement if they prevail, (2) them hourly rate does not reflect that risk, and (3) there is evidence that the ease was risky.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Charles I. Friedman, P.C. v. Microsoft Corp.
  3. “Reasonableness is the goal, and mechanical or formulaic application of either method, where it yields an unreasonable result, can be an abuse of discretion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Nunez v. Bae Sys. San Diego Ship Repair Inc.

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.