Corder v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
947 F.2d 374 · 1991
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Trevino v. Gates (1996), Gates
71 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · City of Canton v. Harris · City of Riverside v. Rivera · Blanchard v. Bergeron · Hughey v. United States
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the court asks whether the claims upon which the plaintiff failed to prevail were related to the plaintiff’s successful claims. If unrelated, the final fee award may not include time expended on the unsuccessful claims. If the unsuccessful and successful claims are related, then the court must apply the second part of the analysis, in which the court evaluates the “significance of the overall relief obtained by the plaintiff in relation to the hours reasonably expended on the litigation.” If the plaintiff obtained “excellent results,” full compensation may be appropriate, but if only “partial or limited success” was obtained, full compensation may be excessive. Such decisions are within the district court’s discretion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is based on an inaccurate view of the law or a clearly erroneous finding of fact.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the district courts must be given much discretion to shape awards of attorney's fees, these awards must be subject to appellate review, and they must be reversed if based on clearly erroneous considerations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Romberg v. Nichols · Romberg
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.