Lightfoot v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 516 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Ustrak v. Fairman (1988), Student Public Interest Research Group of New Jersey, Inc. v. AT & T Bell Laboratories (1988)
18 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Estelle v. Gamble · Blum v. Stenson · Marek v. Chesny · Francis 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the Supreme Court has stated, ‘[wjhere a plaintiff has obtained excellent results, his attorney should recover a fully compensatory fee.’ Hensley, 461 U.S. at 435, 103 S. Ct. at 1940. Congress intended for ‘plaintiffs [to] receive a reasonable fee that is “adequate to attract competent counsel,” and that “counsel for prevailing parties be paid, as is traditional with attorneys compensated by a fee-paying client, ‘for all time reasonably expended.’ ” ’ Gekas v. Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, 793 F.2d 846, 853 (7th Cir. 1986).” 826 F.2d at 520.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“appropriate in view of the district court's superior understanding of the litigation and the desirability of avoiding frequent appellate review of what essentially are factual matters.”
1 later decision 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.