McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Gates, Standley v. Chilhowee R-IV School District (1993)
5 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 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
Relies on Blum v. Stenson · Turner v. Safley · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Bibby v. United States · 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the time and labor required; (2) the novelty and difficulty of the question; (3) the skill requisite to perform the legal service properly; (4) the preclusion of other employment by the attorney due to acceptance of the case; (5) the customary fee; (6) whether ’the fee' is fixed or contingent; (7) time limitations imposed by the client or the circumstances; (8) the amount involved and the results obtained; (9) the experience, reputation, and ability of the attorney; (10) the “undesirability” of the case; (11) the nature and length of the professional relationship with the client; and (12) awards in similar cases.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“produc[ing] satisfactory evidence-in addition to the attorney's own affidavits-that the requested rates are in line with those prevailing in the community for similar services by lawyers of reasonably comparable skill, experience, and reputation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an abuse of discretion or an error in implementing the governing legal standards.”
2 later decisions 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.