Cunningham v. County of Los Angeles’s Empirical Analysis
879 F.2d 481 · 1988
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 9 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Staton v. Boeing Co. (2003), Oviatt Waugh v. Pearce Oviatt Waugh (1992)
93 federal appellate · 9 district · 11 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, 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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by multiplying the number of hours reasonably expended on the litigation by a reasonable hourly rate.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“concise but clear explanation of its reasons for the fee award.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Substantively, both the Supreme Court and our cases have emphasized the discretionary nature of the court's determination of the number of hours reasonably expended.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re George E. Dawson and Barbara J. Dawson, Debtors. George Dawson and Barbara J. Dawson v. Washington Mutual Bank, F.A., Successor to Great Western Bank · In Re George E. Dawson and Barbara J. Dawson, Debtors. George Dawson and Barbara J. Dawson v. Washington Mutual Bank, F.A., Successor to Great Western Bank
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.