Daggett v. Kimmelman’s Empirical Analysis
864 F.2d 1122 · 1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2001
4 federal appellate ·
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. § 1988
Relies on Stafford v. Oklahoma · Watts v. Indiana · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · Karcher v. Daggett · Kirkpatrick v. Preisler
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we cannot give in to the strong temptation to fix the fee ourselves, because the award of attorneys' fees is committed to the informed discretion of the district court.”
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.