Liess v. Lindemyer’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2017
5 district · 9 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Northcross v. Board of Education · Seattle School District No. 1 v. Washington · State Ex Rel. Head v. Paulson · Bryant v. TRW, Inc. · James v. Home Construction Co. of Mobile, 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all relevant circumstances, including the time and labor required, the nature and difficulty of the responsibility assumed; the amount involved and the results obtained; the fees customarily charged for similar legal services; the experience, reputation, and ability of counsel; and the fee arrangement existing between counsel and the client.” Id.; Liess, 354 N.W.2d at 558 . . Some federal courts also emphasize the degree the public interest is advanced by the suit. In Martin v. Hancock, the court held that”
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.