Sneed v. Sneed’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"1. Time and labor required. 2. The novelty and difficulty of the questions. 3. The skill requisite to perform the legal service properly. 4. The preclusion of other employment by the attorney due to acceptance of the case. 5. The customary fee. 6. Whether the fee is fixed or contingent. 7. Time limitations imposed by the client or the circumstances. 8. The amount involved and the results obtained. 9. The experience, reputation and ability of the attorneys. 10. The ‘undesirability’ of the case. (i.e. risk of non-recovery) 11. The nature and length of the professional relationship with the client. 12. Awards in similar cases."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Adams v. Unterkircher · Warren v. Stanfield

2. “«Cases involving minors impose a duty upon. the trial court to protect the child's interest, The next friend [or guardian ad litem] has the power to employ and select counsel, but the amount of attorney's fees is determined by the trial court, after consideration of all the attendant ctreum-stances. The trial court had jurisdiction to examine the contingent fee contract, and to set a reasonable fee. The record reflects that under the cireumstances a just compromise and settlement was effected by the efforts of the attorneys.... The judgment of the trial court which denied the attorneys' fee pursuant to the contingent fee contract is tantamount to a conclusion that [the minor] received no benefit from the service of the attorneys. In Abel v. Tisdale, [ 1980 OK 161 , 1 24,] 619 P.2d 608 ..., this Court held that a trial court has the authority to reduce attorney's fees contracted by the parent on a contingent fee basis, if the reduction is supported by the evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Warren v. Stanfield

3. “. Often contingent fee agreements are the only means possible for litigants to receive legal services ... contingent fees are still the poor man's key to the courthouse door. The contingent fee system allows persons who could not otherwise afford to assert their claims to have their day in Court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Silver Creek Investments, Inc. v. Whitten Construction Management, Inc.