Ellis v. Lebowitz’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2024
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Osburn v. Bendix Home Systems, Inc. · Hamilton v. Telex Corp. · B & P Construction Co. v. Wells · Cochran v. Buddy Spencer Mobile Homes, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n any civil action to recover on ... [a] contract relating to ... labor or services, ... the prevailing party shall be allowed a reasonable attorney fee to be set by the court, to be taxed and collected as costs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he decision to award attorney fees in this case is not discretionary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While fault can indeed be a basis to deny attorney fees under a contract provision, it is not a consideration for determining entitlement as a prevailing party 'in any civil action to recover on [a] contract relating to the purchase or sale of goods' under 12 0.8. 1991 § 986. An award of attorney fees to a prevailing party under § 936 is mandatory.”
1 later decision 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.