Bonnes v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
651 F.2d 214 · 1981
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Bonnes v. Long · F. & M. Schaefer Corp. v. C. Schmidt & Sons, Inc. · 465 F. Supp. 261 - Mid-Hudson Legal Services v. G & U, INC.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the precise legal/factual condition that the fee claimant has sought to change or affect so as to gain a benefit or be relieved of a burden. With this condition taken as a benchmark, inquiry may turn to whether as a quite practical matter the outcome ... is one to which the plaintiff fee claimant’s efforts contributed in a significant way, and which does involve an actual conferral of benefit or relief from burden when measured against the benchmark condition.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Having put the plaintiffs to the time and expense of litigation in order to clarify their rights, the [defendants] cannot now be heard to complain about bearing the cost of that measure, even if, as the district court concluded, the court order did nothing more than “spell out what, in effect, had been the [defendant’s] prevailing practice all along.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the precise factual/legal condition that the fee claimant has sought to change or affect,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fitzharris v. Wolff
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.