Maceira v. Pagan’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.2d 38 · 1983
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 35 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Spell v. McDaniel (1987), Arbor Hill Concerned Citizens Neighborhood Ass'n v. County of Albany & Albany County Board of Elections (2007)
44 federal appellate · 35 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 411
Relies on Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Hall v. Cole · Copeland v. Marshall · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a local attorney could perform the service, a well-informed private client, paying his own fees, would probably hire local counsel at the local, average rate.... But, if the client needs to go to a different city to find that specialist, he will expect to pay the rate prevailing in that city. In such a case, there is no basis for concluding that the specialist's ordinary rate is unreasonably high.”); Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal, Inc., 670 F.2d 760 , 768 (7th Cir.1982) (”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The reasonable hourly rate is usually stated to be 'that prevailing in the community for similar work.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Poulos“has applied the correct criteria to the facts.”
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.