Trayner v. Cushing’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Valcarce v. Fitzgerald (1998), Dixie State Bank v. Bracken (1988)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 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 Management Services Corp. v. Development Associates · Turtle Management, Inc. v. Haggis Management, Inc. · Stubbs v. Hemmert · Paul Mueller Co. v. Cache Valley Dairy Ass'n · Nelson v. Newman
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the relationship of the fee to the amount recovered, the novelty and difficulty of the issues involved, the overall result achieved and the necessity of initiating a lawsuit to vindicate the rights under the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the parties have agreed by contract to the payment of attorney fees, the court may award reasonable fees in accordance with the terms of the parties' agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] party is entitled only to those fees attributable to the successful vindication of contractual rights within the terms of their agreement.”
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.