Glass v. Pfeffer’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 1261 · 1988
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably White v. General Motors Corp. (1990), Mitchell v. Maynard (1996)
30 federal appellate · 7 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. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · Agency Holding Corporation v. Malley-Duff & Associates Inc Crown Life Insurance Company · Kush v. Rutledge · Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. v. Berner · Braley v. Campbell
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the ... area of fee litigation under statutory fee provisions, courts commonly allow additional attorney's fees for time spent in establishing an original fee entitlement. As the Third Circuit has stated: 'It is obviously fair to grant a fee for time spent litigating the fee issue, at least if the fee petitioner is successful and his claim as to a reasonable fee is vindicated, since it is the adversary who made the additional work necessary.' Prandini v. National Tea Co., 585 F.2d 47 , 54 n. 8 (3d Cir.1978). This circuit is in accord. Hernandez v. George, 793 F.2d 264 , 269 (10th Cir.1986).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The affidavit is insufficient if it merely states conclusions, rumors, beliefs and opinions; it must 'state with required particularity the identifying facts of time, place, persons, occasion, and circumstances.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By failing to raise a ... legal theory before the district court, plaintiffs foreclosed themselves from arguing that theory on appeal [from summary judgment] or on remand, and plaintiffs' counsel cannot now rely on this theory....”
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.