Mulhern v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably 22 Mass. App. Ct. 672 - Wasserman v. Agnastopoulos (1986), 31 Mass. App. Ct. 606 - Beatty v. NP CORP. (1991)
3 federal appellate · 16 district · 42 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Grendel's Den, Inc. v. Larkin · Cummings v. National Shawmut Bank of Boston · Building Inspector of Lancaster v. Sanderson · Wojtkowski v. Cade
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the ability and reputation of the attorney, the demand for his services by others, the amount and importance of the matter involved, the time spent, the prices usually charged for similar services by other attorneys in the same neighborhood, the amount of money or the value of the property affected by controversy, and the results secured.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The question of what is fair and reasonable compensation for legal services rendered is one of fact for a trial judge to decide.”
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.