Rosenfeld v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2000
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Surowitz v. Hilton Hotels Corp. · Abel v. United States · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 93,093 Judah Rosenfeld, Etc. v. E. R. Black · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Insurance Securities, Inc. · Rosenfeld v. Black
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"For the beneficiary [i.e. members of the class] the recovery bears analogy to windfall, while to the attorneys it is the hard earned fruit of assiduous and skillful labor. In these circumstances there need be no hesitation in awarding that percentage of the recovery which has been given freely, both in this Court and the State Courts, to perhaps lesser achievements in terms of special skill and novelty. "Traditionally, courts in this district and elsewhere have awarded fees in the range of 20% to 30% of the recovery. See Philadelphia Electric Co. v. Anaconda American Brass Co., 47 F.R.D. 557, 559 (E.D.Pa.1969), where 25% was awarded on a settlement of $22 million. Illustrative of awards in this Court, Judge Ryan (Richland v. Chatham, 66 Civ. 1930) awarded about 25%; Judge Levett (Stull v. Kaymarg Consolidated Corporation, CCH Fed.Sec.L.Rep. § 92,508) awarded 33 1/3 %; Judge Tenney (Jamison v. Barr, 69 Civ. 2795, unreported) awarded about 30%; Judge Tyler (Zeitlin v. Bergen, 66 Civ. 4479) awarded 24%."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“have been encouraged by the courts to tilt the lance for justice by the awarding of generous fees.”
1 later decision 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.