Harman v. Levin’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Branding Iron Motel, Inc. v. Sandlian Equity, Inc. (1986), Boddy
12 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 11 U.S.C. § 330 · 28 U.S.C. § 157 · 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the attorney's expectations at the outset of the litigation”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable compensation for actual, necessary services rendered ... based on the nature, the extent, and the value of such services, the time spent on such services, and the cost of comparable services other than in a case under this title....”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]indings of fact will be affirmed unless our review of the entire record leaves us with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
5 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.