Brown v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
917 F.2d 189 · 1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 406 (§ 206 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Blanchard v. Bergeron · Venegas v. Mitchell · Coup v. Heckler
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a court renders a judgment favorable to a claimant under this title who was represented before the court by an attorney, the court may determine and allow as a part of its judgment a reasonable fee for such representation, not in excess of 25 percent of the total past-due benefits to which the claimant is entitled by reason of such judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court must, where a contingent fee agreement is involved, articulate the weight of contingency”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kay v. Apfel“contingency-fee factor is simply that, a factor,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kay v. Apfel
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.