Covington’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 197 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 255 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Role Models America, Inc. v. Brownlee (2004), 696 F. Supp. 2d 97 - Jackson v. District of Columbia (2010)
16 federal appellate · 197 district · 3 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Missouri v. Jenkins Ex Rel. Agyei
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 255 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the attorneys' billing practices; the attorneys' skill, experience, and reputation; and the prevailing market rates in the relevant community.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“specific contrary evidence tending to show that a lower rate would be appropriate.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) 'the attorney['s] billing practices'; (2) 'the attorney['s] skills, experience, and reputation'; and (3) 'the prevailing market rates in the relevant community.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.