Bernardi v. Yeutter’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 971 · 1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2016
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 1961 · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Library of Congress v. Shaw · Chalmers v. City of Los Angeles · D'Emanuele v. Montgomery Ward & Co. · Domingo v. New England Fish Co.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A review of the record indicates that the request for fees and costs for work on the fee petition is reasonable. We therefore award $65,641.50 for fees incurred in litigating the fee petition: $9,370.50 for work performed by class counsel and $56,271.00 for legal services rendered by counsel employed by class counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has discretion in determining the amount of a fee award. This is appropriate in view of the [trial forum's] superior understanding of the litigation and the desirability of avoiding frequent appellate review of what essentially are factual matters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district court is in the best position to determine in the first instance the number of hours reasonably expended”
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.