Copeland v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
594 F.2d 244 · 1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1999
4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A (Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corporation, Manhattan-Ward, Incorporated v. Grinnell Corporation, 1225 Vine Street Building, Inc. v. Grinnell Corporation · Frey v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the trial court is not satisfied that [single rate hourly billing] is the customary practice in this jurisdiction or in the case of this particular firm, or if additional information is needed concerning the details of this practice and its proper application to the fee request at issue here, the record should be supplemented so that any necessary adjustments in the award can be made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not mechanistically set as its cornerstone the 'customary' and unadjusted fees charged by private attorneys in their unrelated and most highly paid lines of work.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Copeland v. Marshall“the sums paid out to (the) attorneys as personal income and to defray overhead costs attributable to the maintenance of the attorneys in the firm,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Copeland v. Marshall
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.