Hernandez v. George’s Empirical Analysis
793 F.2d 264 · 1986
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Monahan v. New York City Department of Corrections (2000), Mares v. Credit Bureau of Raton (1986)
33 federal appellate · 13 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 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Herrmann v. United States · Ramos v. Lamm · Prandini v. National Tea Co. · Smith v. Ford Motor Co.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his court generally allows recovery of fees for attorneys' work in seeking attorneys' fees. Compensating attorneys for work in resolving the fee issue furthers the purpose behind the fee authorization in Sec. 1988 which is to encourage attorneys to represent indigent clients and to act as private attorneys general in vindicating federal civil rights policies.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his court has ... recognized that district courts have discretion in applying local rules.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e ... consider whether it was error for the district court to deny costs for depositions and court reporting. Although a federal statute provides that a judge may tax deposition expenses as costs if the depositions are “necessarily obtained for use in the case,” 28 U.S.C. § 1920 , a more stringent local district court rule allows costs only for depositions received in evidence or used by the court in ruling upon a motion for summary judgment, D.N.M.R. 15(d), Fed. R. Serv. Local Ct. R., N.M., p. 11 (Callaghan). The district judge applied the local rule and denied the deposition expenses because the depositions at issue were used only for settlement purposes. This case presents no special circumstances suggesting that the local rule should not be applied. We find the district judge did not abuse his discretion in applying the local rule.”
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.