Wells v. Allstate Insurance’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 district ·

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) the size of the fund created and the number of persons benefited, (2) the presence or absence of substantial objections by class members to the settlement terms or fees requested by counsel, (3) the skill and efficiency of the attorneys involved, (4) the complexity and duration of litigation, (5) the risk of nonpayment, (6) the time devoted to the case by plaintiffs’ counsel, and (7) awards in similar cases.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Little v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth. · 953 F. Supp. 2d 82 - In Re Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation

2. “the public interest is not always named as a separate factor in the fee-award determination.” Wells v. Allstate Ins. Co., 557 F.Supp.2d at 8 ; cf. Burka v. U.S. Dep’t of Health and Human Servs., 142 F.3d 1286, 1292 (D.C.Cir.1998) (Wald, J„ concurring) (noting that courts evaluate the public benefit under fee-shifting statutes”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 953 F. Supp. 2d 82 - In Re Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation

3. “courts routinely approve incentive awards to compensate named plaintiffs for the services they provided and the risks they incurred during the course of the class action litigation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Little v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth.