Blackburn v. Goettel-Blanton’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.2d 95 · 1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2020
8 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
Relies on Food Pantry, Ltd. v. Waikiki Business Plaza, Inc. · 2 Haw. App. 400 - Smothers v. Renander · Sharp v. Hui Wahine, Inc. · Lennen & Newell, Inc. v. Clark Enterprises, Inc. · 4 Haw. App. 166 - Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd. v. Cowan
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“placing a ceiling on the award of attorney's fees of twenty-five per cent of the judgment amount, exclusive of costs and attorney's fees, or the amount claimed plus interest, but not to exceed what is deemed reasonable by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Yet the parties trudged through four years of expensive and frustrating litigation all the same. As is quite often the case when litigation ends, neither side will be satisfied with the result we reach today.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the case was so simple - her breach of contract so self-evident - that plaintiffs could not have legitimately amassed”
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.