Shott v. Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center’s Empirical Analysis
338 F.3d 736 · 2003
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2023
9 federal appellate · 1 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Missouri v. Jenkins Ex Rel. Agyei · Jaffee Special Administrator for Allen Deceased v. Redmond · O'Rourke v. City of Providence · Continental Illinois Securities Litigation: Steinlauf v. Continental Illinois Corporation Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Eiger
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While an unreasonable argument that necessitates further proceedings may justify denying compensation for those proceedings, the district court in this case found that Jaffee acted reasonably .... [A] fee award is not automatically precluded because the second trial was “necessitated by” a reasonable but unsuccessful argument. 53”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A district court's] [d]iscretion must be exercised according to law, which means that prejudgment interest should be awarded unless there is a sound reason not to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Without it, compensation of the plaintiff is incomplete and the defendant has an incentive to delay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frey v. Coleman
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.