Perdue v. Kenny A. Ex Rel. Winn’s Empirical Analysis
559 U.S. 542 · 2010
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 62 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 360 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Hardt v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co. (2010), Hardt v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance (2010)
58 federal appellate · 62 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 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 · Younger v. Harris · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Blum v. Stenson · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co.
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 360 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the lodestar method yields a fee that is presumptively [reasonable].”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is a strong presumption that the lodestar is sufficient,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] 'reasonable' fee is a fee that is sufficient to induce a capable attorney to undertake the representation of a meritorious civil rights case.”
4 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.