McAfee v. Boczar’s Empirical Analysis
738 F.3d 81 · 2013
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Farrar v. Hobby · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · City of Riverside v. Rivera · Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Alpha” collectively refers to Jordan Fish-man; Tire Engineering and Distribution, LLC; Bearcat Tire A.R.L., LLC; and Bcatco A.R.L., Inc. The three entities are owned by Fishman and do business under the names "Alpha Tire Systems” and "Alpha Mining Systems.” 2 . Citations to the "J.A.” refer to the Joint Appendix the parties filed in this appeal. 3 . A court calculates a "lodestar” figure by "multiplying the number of reasonable hours expended times a reasonable rate.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The time and labor expended; (2) the novelty and difficulty of the questions raised; (3) the skill required to properly perform the legal services rendered; (4) the attorney’s opportunity costs in pressing the instant litigation; (5) the customary fee for like work; (6) the attorney’s expectations at the outset of the litigation; (7) the time limitations imposed by the client or circumstances; (8) the amount in controversy and the results obtained; (9) the experience, reputation, and ability of the attorney; (10) the undesirability of the case within the legal community in which the suit arose; (11) the nature and length of the professional relationship between attorney and client; and (12) attorneys’ fees awards in similar cases.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In the final step before making an attorney’s fee award under [Section] 1988, a district court must “consider the relationship between the extent of success and the amount of the fee award.” The court will reduce the award if “the relief, however significant, is limited in comparison to the scope of the litigation as a whole.”... What the court must ask is whether “the plaintiff achieve[d] a level of success that makes the hours reasonably expended a satisfactory basis for making a fee award.””
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.