Lane v. Head’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 734 So. 2d 403 - Bell v. USB Acquisition Co., Inc. (1999), First Baptist Church of Cape Coral, Florida, Inc. v. Compass Construction, Inc. (2013)
30 state decisions
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 Blanchard v. Bergeron · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · 472 So. 2d 1145 - Florida Patient's Compensation Fund v. Rowe · 555 So. 2d 828 - Standard Guar. Ins. Co. v. Quanstrom · 554 So. 2d 1165 - Pisano v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[In Quanstrom , ] [w]e declined to permit the multiplier's use in category I, which concerns public interest cases, except in the limited circumstances allowed under the principles enunciated by the United States Supreme Court in Blanchard v. Bergeron, 489 U.S. 87 , 109 S.Ct. 939 , 103 L.Ed.2d 67 (1989), and Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air, 483 U.S. 711 , 107 S.Ct. 3078 , 97 L.Ed.2d 585 (1987). I note that the use of a multiplier in this category is severely restricted and that "`no enhancement for risk is appropriate unless the applicant can establish that without an adjustment for risk the prevailing party "would have faced substantial difficulties in finding counsel in the local or other relevant market."'" Quanstrom, 555 So.2d at 832 (quoting Delaware Valley, 483 U.S. at 733 , 107 S.Ct. at 3090 (citation omitted)).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ttorneys should be encouraged to take cases on a partial contingency-fee arrangement, since this policy also will encourage attorneys to provide services to persons who otherwise could not afford the customary legal fee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he justification for a contingency fee multiplier is that without providing an added incentive for lawyers to obtain higher fees, clients with legitimate causes of action (or defenses) may not be able to obtain legal services.”
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.