Dixie State Bank v. Bracken’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Valcarce v. Fitzgerald (1998), Amica Mutual Insurance Co. v. Schettler (1989)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 119 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
Relies on Turtle Management, Inc. v. Haggis Management, Inc. · Cabrera v. Cottrell · Hal Taylor Associates v. Unionamerica, Inc. · Golden Key Realty, Inc. v. Mantas · Kerr v. Kerr
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. What legal work was actually performed? 2. How much of the work performed was reasonably necessary to adequately prosecute the matter? 3. Is the attorney's billing rate consistent with the rates customarily charged in the locality for similar services? 4. Are there circumstances which require consideration of additional factors, including those listed in the Code of Professional Responsibility?”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“Calculation of reasonable attorney fees is in the sound discretion of the trial court, and will not be overturned in the absence of a showing of a clear abuse of discretion.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“the difficulty of the litigation, the efficiency of the attorneys in presenting the case, the reasonableness of the number of hours spent on the case, the fee customarily charged in the locality for similar services, the amount involved in the case and the result attained, and the expertise and experience of the attorneys involved.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.