Gregris v. Edberg’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2004
5 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Maine v. Thiboutot · City of Riverside v. Rivera · United States v. New York Telephone Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““LaFontaine is credited with the statement that ‘Help yourself, and heaven will help you’. It should not appear so from an overabundance of aid by the court to the enhancement of attorneys’ fees. Presently, an applicable quotation for attorneys might be ‘Help yourself and the courts will help you’. For, if we, the courts, do not concern ourselves with the interests of ordinary people and instead stand as ah advocate for the enhancement of attorney’s fees, it will prove that ordinary people will be left without counsel, or at the mercy of counsel and be compelled to become their own advocates. We should, in evaluating the liberal principle that attorneys are entitled to fees, be alert to, and restrict where possible, over-evaluation, self-love and self-enrichment through the aid of the courts. In the end, when it is through governmental channels, it is the public who must ultimately pay the bill. In our experience in allowing attorneys’ fees, we seldom see attorneys underrate themselves and very seldom see attorneys underrate the value of their services, but the vast majority overrate themselves and require careful examination for the purpose of making payment truly for the services necessarily and well rendered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that the courts of the United States have the inherent and statutory ( 28 U.S.C.A. § 1651 ) power and authority to enter such orders as may be necessary to enforce and effectuate their lawful orders and judgments, and to prevent them from being thwarted and interfered with by force, guile, or otherwise.”
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.