Foster v. Boise-Cascade, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.2d 335 · 1978
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Piambino v. Bailey (1985), Holmes v. Continental Can Co. (1983)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Jake ROWE Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee · 420 F. Supp. 674 - Foster v. Boise-Cascade, Inc. · 4 Fair empl.prac.cas. 257, 4 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 7647 Linell Long v. Georgia Kraft Company
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The hourly rate approach ... frequently [bears] little or no relationship to the value of the services performed in anything but the most routine work. A flash of brilliance by a trial lawyer may be worth far more to his clients than hours or days of plodding effort. Few among us would contend that an operation by a gifted surgeon who removes an appendix in fifteen minutes is worth only one sixth of that performed by his marginal colleagues who require an hour and a half for the same operation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“district court is not bound by the agreement of the parties as to the amount of attorneys' 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.