Thompson v. Kennickell’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2018
1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Blanchard v. Bergeron · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“each court let a determination such as Judge Smith's [in Palmer ] control future cases such as this one,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that the attorney market in the District of Columbia requires contingency enhancements of 100% to 200%”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the prevailing market rate[ ] in the relevant community.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.