Jane L. v. Bangerter’s Empirical Analysis

61 F.3d 1505 · 1995

Citation profile

134

cited by 134 later decisions

states following

July 2021

most recently cited

41 federal appellate · 31 district · 13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Lyndell Mitchell v. The City of Moore Oklahoma Mike Drea Bruce Storm Gary Tipps (2000), Berry v. Stevinson Chevrolet (1996)

41 federal appellate · 31 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 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

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988

Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Hughes v. Rowe

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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[A] district court may discount requested attorney hours if the attorney fails to keep 'meticulous, contemporaneous time records' that 'reveal all hours for which compensation is requested and how those hours were allotted to specific tasks'.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. In re Snow · In re Morris
“Where a lawsuit consists of related claims, a plaintiff who has won substantial relief should not have his attorney's fee reduced simply because the district court did not adopt each contention raised.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. O Centro Espirita Beneficente União Do Vegs in U.S. v. Duke · Dejavue, Inc. v. U.S. Energy Corp.
“To determine a reasonable attorneys fee, the district court must arrive at a 'lodestar' figure by multiplying the hours plaintiffs' counsel reasonably spent on the litigation by a reasonable hourly rate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. O Centro Espirita Beneficente União Do Vegs in U.S. v. Duke · 4 F. Supp. 2d 998 - Carr v. Fort Morgan School District

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.