481 F. Supp. 776 - Vecchione v. Wohlgemuth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1821 · 28 U.S.C. § 1828 · 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Fuentes v. Shevin · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Hutto v. Finney · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) Fees and disbursements for printing and witnesses; .... (6) Compensation of court appointed experts....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Except when express provision therefor is made either in a statute of the United States or in these rules, costs shall be allowed as of course to the prevailing party unless the court otherwise directs”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“such hours are incurred apart from the prosecution of the main case, and it is upon the nature of the main case and the quality of the work done on it that adjustments to the lodestar are based.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.