Lund v. Affleck’s Empirical Analysis
587 F.2d 75 · 1978
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 26 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Copeland v. Marshall (1979), Washington v. Seattle School District No. 1 (1982)
83 federal appellate · 26 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hutto v. Finney · King v. Greenblatt · Prandini v. National Tea Co. · Souza v. Southworth
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[i]t would be inconsistent with the purpose of the Fees Act to dilute a fees award by refusing to compensate the attorney for the time reasonably spent in establishing and negotiating his rightful claim to the fee.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... It would be inconsistent with the purpose of the Fees Act to dilute a fees award by refusing to compensate the attorney for the time reasonably spent in establishing and negotiating his rightful claim to the fee [citations omitted]. On the other hand, if the attorney's initial claims are exorbitant, or the time spent advancing them unreasonable, the district court should refuse the further compensation. The same point we have emphasized in all fee situations applies here: it is not enough for the court to multiply a fixed rate by the number of hours claimed. The court must satisfy itself of the overall fairness and reasonableness of the fee under all the circumstances. ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantial and ... the successful pendent claim arose from the same nucleus of facts.”
2 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.