McKenzie v. Kennickell’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2017
2 federal appellate · 7 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Blum v. Stenson · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air
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.
“the application must be sufficiently detailed to permit the District Court to make an independent determination whether or not the hours claimed are justified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“conferences between attorneys to discuss strategy ... are an essential part of effective litigation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he hours reasonably expended are not necessarily equal to the hours actually expended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.