Bonnes v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.2d 1316 · 1979
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 19 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012 · most notably Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (2001), 32 Cal. 3d 668 - Folsom v. Butte County Assn. of Governments (1982)
64 federal appellate · 19 district · 15 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 Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison · Parham v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · Parker v. Califano
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a pragmatic one of both fact and law that will ordinarily range outside the merits of the basic controversy ... to whether as a quite practical matter the outcome, in whatever form it is realized, is one to which the plaintiff fee claimant's efforts contributed in a significant way,”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A prevailing plaintiff “should ordinarily recover an attorney’s fee unless special circumstances would render such an award unjust.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is now axiomatic that ... the discretion of a district court in deciding whether to award such fees to a prevailing party is narrowly limited.”
3 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.