Seinfeld v. Coker’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blum v. Stenson · Boeing Co. v. Van Gemert · Trustees v. Greenough · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · General Motors Corporation Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liability Litigation 94-1064 94-1194 94-1195 94-1198 94-1202 94-1203 94-1207 94-1208 94-1219
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of the historic reasons Delaware judges have been so willing to award substantial attorneys' fees, even after a relatively quick settlement of the case, is that our fee awards are not structured to reward lawyers for needlessly prolonging litigation. Put simply, `the Court does not want to be in a position of encouraging the churning of wheels and devoting unnecessary hours to litigation in order to be able to present larger numbers to the Court.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The benefits achieved by the litigation constitute the factor generally accorded the greatest weight.”). . Johnston v. Arbitrium (Cayman Islands) Handels AG, 720 A.2d 542, 547 (Del.1998). . Cf. In re Cox Commons, Inc. S’holders Litig., 879 A.2d at 609-12 (awarding a”
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.