Young v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State Ex Rel. Burk v. City of Oklahoma City · Spencer v. Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. · Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Parker Pest Control, Inc. · Armstrong v. May · Short v. Jones
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must bear some reasonable relationship to the amount in controversy . . . and that relationship must be considered in each case where an attorneys' fee is awarded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the lower court ruling is without rational basis in the evidence or where it is based upon erroneous legal conclusions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here is no strict rule that the award of attorney fees may not exceed the amount of recovery,”
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.