Thompson v. Gomez’s Empirical Analysis
45 F.3d 1365 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Schwarz v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1995), Wagner v. Shinseki (2011)
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 2412 · 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 · Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean · Grendel's Den, Inc. v. Larkin · Institutionalized Juveniles S v. Secretary of Public Welfare C 83-1696 83-1722 · Clark v. City of Los Angeles
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the legal principles for recovering attorney's fees laid out in Hensley [citation omitted] apply to requests for fees-on- fees”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dixon v. Comm'r · Young v. Comm'r“[p]laintiffs' [fees-on-fees], now and in the future, will be subject to a reduction in proportion to the amount actually awarded for merits work in the underlying action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Gomez“if Plaintiffs request $1000 in merit fees, but are only awarded $500, then any attorneys' fees generated in litigating the merit fees would be reduced by 50%.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Gomez
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.