Hart v. Bourque’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison · Copeland v. Marshall
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unnecessary time: that devoted to continuing legal education; that spent travelling; that spent on arrangements for lectures or publications about the case; or that spent doing extensive legal research when the parties were on the verge of reaching a settlement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hart v. Bourque
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.