Moriarty v. Svec’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2023
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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Arizona v. California · Public Citizen v. United States Department of Justice · Messenger v. Anderson · Rosewell Messinger v. Peter Anderson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the district court chooses to use a substantial offer as a cut-off point for the award of attorneys' fees ... [it] must offer an explanation as to why it chooses to use one substantial offer as a cut-off, but not another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“clearly erroneous and would work a manifest injustice.”
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.