In the Matter of First Colonial Corp. Of America, Bankrupt. American Benefit Life Insurance Company, Appellants-Cross-Appellees v. Franz J. Baddock, Trustee, Appellee-Cross-Appellant. In the Matter of First Colonial Corp. Of America, Bankrupt. Bert K. Robinson v. American Benefit Life Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.2d 1291 · 1977
Citation profile
113 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 463 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Norman v. Housing Authority of Montgomery (1988), 785 F.2d 1249
113 federal appellate · 16 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
Relies on Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Ross v. Bernhard · Trustees v. Greenough · Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co. · Kerr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California
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 463 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the time and labor expended; (2) the novelty and difficulty of the questions raised; (3) the skill required to properly perform the legal services rendered; (4) the attorney’s opportunity costs in pressing the instant litigation; (5) the customary fee for like work; (6) the attorney’s expectations at the outset of the litigation; (7) the time limitations imposed by the client or circumstances; (8) the amount in controversy and the results obtained; (9) the experience, reputation and ability of the attorney; (10) the undesirability of the case within the legal community in which the suit arose; (11) the nature and length of the professional relationship between attorney and client; and (12) attorneys’ fees awards in similar cases.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Ascertain the nature and extent of the services supplied by the attorney; (2) Value the services according to the customary fee and quality of the legal work; (3) Adjust the compensation on the basis of other Johnson factors that may be of significance in the particular case.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“explain the findings and reasons upon which the award is based, including an indication of how each of the twelve factors in Johnson affected his decision”
7 later decisions 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.