Clark v. City of Los Angeles’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 987 · 1986
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Rode v. Dellarciprete (1990), Davis v. City and County San Francisco (1992)
60 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 7604
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Maher v. Gagne · City of Riverside v. Rivera
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.
“Many factors previously identified by courts as probative on the issue of ‘reasonableness’ of a fee award, see e.g., Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., 526 F.2d 67, 69-70 (9th Cir.1975), cert. denied, 425 U.S. 951 , 96 S.Ct. 1726 , 48 L.Ed.2d 195 ... (1976), are now subsumed within the initial calculation of the lodestar amount. Blum v. Stenson, 465 U.S. 886, 898-900 , 104 S.Ct. 1541 , 79 L.Ed.2d 891 ... (1984) (‘the novelty and complexity of the issues,’ ‘the special skill and experience of counsel,’ the ‘quality of the representation,’ and the ‘results obtained’ are subsumed within the lodestar); Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens’ Council, 478 U.S. 546 , 106 S.Ct. 3088 , 92 L.Ed.2d 439 ... (1986), rev’d after rehearing on other grounds, 483 U.S. 711 , 107 S.Ct. 3078 , 97 L.Ed.2d 585 ... (1987) (an attorney’s ‘superior performance’ is subsumed).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Whether a litigant has shown a sufficient causal relationship between the lawsuit and the practical outcome realized is a pragmatic factual inquiry for the district court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Supreme Court has recognized that adjustments, both upward and downward to the lodestar amount are sometimes appropriate, albeit in `rare' and `exceptional' cases ... Blum, 465 U.S. at 898-901 , 104 S.Ct. 1541 ... The possibility of adjustments to the lodestar amount necessitates an analysis of various factors that could justify an adjustment. In this circuit, the relevant factors were identified in Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., 526 F.2d 67, 70 (9th Cir.1975). Although several of these factors are now considered to be subsumed within the calculation of the lodestar figure ..., review of the Kerr factors remains the appropriate procedure for considering a request for a fee-award adjustment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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