Miles v. Sampson’s Empirical Analysis
675 F.2d 5 · 1982
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 28 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Spell v. McDaniel (1987), 100 Wash. 2d 581 - Bowers v. Transamerica Title Insurance (1983)
26 federal appellate · 28 district · 11 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 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison · Copeland v. Marshall · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · United States Steel Corporation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, a “lodestar” fee is determined by multiplying a reasonable hourly rate by the number of hours reasonably expended on the lawsuit. Second, the “lodestar” is adjusted up or down to reflect factors, such as the contingent nature of success in the lawsuit or the quality of legal representation, which have not already been taken into account in computing the “lodestar” and which are shown to warrant the adjustment by the party proposing it.”
12 later decisions 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.