Watkins v. Fordice’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 453 · 1993
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Green v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund (2002), Brady v. Fort Bend County (1998)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Farrar v. Hobby · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · City of Burlington v. Dague
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(1) the time and labor required, the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved, and the skill required to perform the legal service properly; (2) the likelihood ... that the acceptance of the particular employment will preclude other employment by the lawyer; (3) the fee customarily charged in the locality for similar legal services; (4) the amount involved and the results obtained; (5) the time limitations imposed by the client or by the circumstances; (6) the nature and length of the professional relationship with the client; (7) the expertise, reputation, and ability of the lawyer or lawyers performing the services; and (8) whether the fee is fixed or contingent on results obtained or uncertainty of the collection before the legal services have been rendered.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he district court has broad discretion in setting the appropriate award of attorneys' fees.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he court should exclude all time that is ... inadequately documented.”
2 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.