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← 869 FSUPP 1446 - Tabech v. Gunter

Tabech v. Gunter’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
May 2002
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 6 district ·

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3626 (§ 20409 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988

Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Farmer v. Brennan · Blum v. Stenson · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Hensley makes clear that these factors matter only as they bear on the market rate or hours reasonably expended, or, in rare cases, if they are a basis for adjusting the lodestar.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “there were certain instances where the documentation was simply not sufficient to make an intelligent determination as to whether the hours expended were in fact reasonable.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the documentation submitted by the plaintiffs' counsel was voluminous, detailed, and in most cases, fully in compliance with our local rules of practice.”
    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.