Hanig v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
415 F.3d 822 · 2005
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Chambers v. Pennycook (2011), Howard v. Kansas City Police Department (2009)
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Foster v. Metropolitan Airports Commission · Crumley v. City of St. Paul
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Attorney's fees are within the broad discretion of the district court and will not be reversed absent an abuse of discretion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'multipl[ies] the number of hours reasonably expended by the reasonable hourly rates.' When determining reasonable hourly rates, district courts may rely on their own experience and knowledge of prevailing market rates.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Qualified immunity is not just a defense to liability, it constitutes immunity from suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.