668 F. Supp. 1021 - Howes v. Atkins’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Swedish Hospital Corp. v. Shalala (1993), Longden v. Sunderman (1992)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78D (§ 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Shaw · Fisher v. Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co. · 611 F. Supp. 1296 - In Re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Recent decisions make it clear that a lodestar analysis is usually inappropriate in cases of this kind and indeed in most common fund cases. There has been a clear trend away from the lodestar approach and back to a percentage award in common fund cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]laintiffs' litigation practice, given the uncertainties and hazards of litigation, must necessarily be result-oriented. It matters little to the class how much the attorney spends in time or money to reach a successful result.”
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.