Dorothy M. Thompson v. Ralph E. Kennickell, Jr., Public Printer, Dorothy M. Thompson v. Ralph E. Kennickell, Jr., Public Printer’s Empirical Analysis
836 F.2d 616 · 1988
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably King v. Palmer (1991), Student Public Interest Research Group of New Jersey, Inc. v. AT & T Bell Laboratories (1988)
16 federal appellate · 6 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. § 2106 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Library of Congress v. Shaw · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We see no reason why the stipulation — if it provides evidence of [Mr. Boggs’] customary billing rate — does not reflect “the opportunity cost of foregone representations.” Laffey, 746 F.2d at 18 . Accordingly, the stipulation may provide evidence of the presumptively reasonable rate for public-interest counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“specific evidence to rebut the presumption that the lodestar figure was reasonable.” Id. at 622. The court refused to award an enhancement based exclusively on the plaintiffs’ exceptional victory, stating that the trial court failed to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“neither the district court nor the parties were aware of Justice O'Connor's formulation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.