Bowling v. Pfizer, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. “the future portion of Counsel's award will fairly compensate Counsel for the future work that they will do and the benefits that they will confer upon the Class at or near the time that this work is actually done and these benefits are actually conferred upon the class.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bowling v. Pfizer · Bowling Lpa

2. “account[s] for additional factors such as the contingent nature of the case and the quality of an attorney's work.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bowling v. Pfizer · Bowling Lpa

3. “The interest of class counsel in obtaining fees is adverse to the interest of the class in obtaining recovery because the fees come out of the common fund set up for the benefit of the class. In addition there is often no one to argue for the interests of the class (that their recovery should not be unfairly reduced), since it is to be expected that class members with small individual stakes in the outcome will not file objections, and the defendant who contributed to the fund will usually have scant interest in how the fund is divided between the plaintiffs and class counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 137 F. Supp. 2d 1029 - In Re Telectronics Pacing Systems, Inc.