McDonough v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2007
1 district · 23 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 United States v. Equitable Trust Co. · Estate of Hague v. Commissioner · Patrick v. Sedwick · Preferred General Agency of Alaska, Inc. v. Raffetto · LeFave v. Dimond
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Allowance to Prevailing Party as Costs. (1)Unless the court, in its discretion, otherwise directs, the following schedule of attorney’s fees will be adhered to in fixing such fees for the party recovering any money judgment therein, as part of the costs of the action allowed by law: Attorney’s Fees in Average Cases Without Trial Non-Contested Contested 20% 15% First $2,000 25% 15% 12.5% Next $3,000 20% 12.5% 10% Next $5,000 15% 7.5% 5% Over $10,000 10% Should no recovery he had, attorney’s fees for the prevailing party may he fixed hy the court as a part of the eosts of the action, in its discretion, in a reasonable amount. (2) In actions where the money judgment is not an accurate criteria [sic] for determining the fee to be allowed to the prevailing side, the court shall award a fee commensurate with the amount and value of legal services rendered. (3) The allowance of attorney’s fees by the court in conformance with the foregoing schedule is not to be construed as fixing the fees between attorney and client. (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cooper v. Carlson · Palfy v. Rice“Costs. Except when express provision therefor is made either in a statute of the state or in these rules, costs shall he allowed as of course to the prevailing party unless the court otherwise directs. The procedure for the taxing of costs by the clerk and review of his action by the court shall be governed by Rule 79. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cooper v. Carlson“Costs allowed prevailing party. Except as otherwise provided by statute, the supreme court shall determine by rule or order what costs, if any, including attorney fees, shall be allowed the prevailing party in any case.”
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.