Blumberg v. Nealco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Jackson v. Speed (1997), Badeaux v. Davis (1999)
70 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 Baron Data Systems, Inc. v. Loter · Hegler v. Gulf Insurance Co. · Gainey v. Gainey · Collins v. Collins · Farmers and Merchants Bank v. Fargnoli
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) nature, extent, and difficulty of the legal services rendered; (2) time and labor devoted to the case; (3) professional standing of counsel; (4) contingency of compensation; (5) fee customarily charged in the locality for similar services; and (6) beneficial results obtained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Trial courts make specific findings of fact on the record for each of the factors set out above [the Blumberg factors]. In fact, “[o]n appeal, absent sufficient evidentiary support on the record for each factor, the award should be reversed and the issue remanded for the trial court to make specific findings of fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.