Ursic v. Bethlehem Mines’s Empirical Analysis
719 F.2d 670 · 1983
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 31 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 233 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. (1984), Gavalik v. Continental Can Co. (1987)
70 federal appellate · 31 district · 11 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 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 28 U.S.C. § 2678 · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1140 (§ 510 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 5 U.S.C. § 504 (Equal Access to Justice Act)
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 233 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the offending parties’ culpability or bad faith; (2) the ability of the offending parties to satisfy an award of attorneys’ fees; (3) the deterrent effect of an award of attorneys’ fees against the offending parties; (4) the benefit conferred on members of the pension plan as a whole; and (5) the relative merits of the parties’ position.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[R]outine tasks, if performed by senior partners in large firms, should not be billed at their usual rates.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the court in its discretion may allow a reasonable attorney's fee and costs of action to either party.”
6 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.