Cappel v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
434 F.2d 1278 · 1970
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Dunn v. H. K. Porter Co. (1979), Brewer v. The School Board Of The City Of Norfolk, Virginia (1972)
48 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Gair v. Peck · United States v. Anglin & Stevenson · Monaghan v. Hill
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sum determined to be a reasonable attorney's fee is within the discretion of the district court; before a reviewing court should disturb the holding there should be a clear showing that the trial judge abused his discretion.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At the outset, the Court notes that where an attorney recovers a fund in a suit under a contract with a client providing that he shall be compensated only out of the fund he creates, the court having jurisdiction of the subject matter of the suit has power to fix the attorney’s compensation and direct its payment out of the fund.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]nce invoked, the equitable jurisdiction of the court was not exhausted until all claims against the funds in the registry of the court were adjudicated.”
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.