Kargman v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
589 F.2d 63 · 1978
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2012
10 federal appellate · 6 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Hall v. Cole · Trustees v. Greenough
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party preserving or recovering a. fund for the benefit of others in addition to himself, to recover his costs, including his attorneys’ fees, from the fund or property itself or directly from the other parties enjoying the benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barrett v. Allison“having sought no hearing on (the attorney's fee) motion, counsel could hardly have been surprised when none was held.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Copeland v. Marshall“is an equitable award made at the discretion of the district court.”
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.