Berberena v. Coler’s Empirical Analysis
753 F.2d 629 · 1985
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Kirchoff v. Flynn (1986), Tomazzoli v. Sheedy (1986)
9 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Miller v. Carson · Bonner v. Coughlin · Freeman v. Franzen
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“product of reasonable hours times a reasonable rate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“this was a difficult case with significant social effects and that the participation of the two attorneys in question in the strategy conferences and negotiations `may indeed have been crucial to subsequent participation in the case.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamilton v. Daley
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.