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951 F. Supp. 2d 47 - Harvey v. Mohammed’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
October 2018
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 11 district ·

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 1821 · 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 28 U.S.C. § 591 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Blanchard v. Bergeron · Crawford Fitting Company v. Jt Gibbons Inc Champion International Corporation

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

  1. “The gist of the appellant’s argument is that only taxable costs may be awarded in addition to fees calculated with regard to the hourly rate. This interpretation is overly narrow.... As several other courts have held, the authority granted in section 1988 to award a “reasonable attorney’s fee” included the authority to award those reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the attorney which are normally charged to a fee-paying client, in the course of providing legal services.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “if they succeed on any significant issue in litigation which achieves some of the benefit the parties sought in bringing suit.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “In the EAJA context, the D.C. Circuit has stated that discussions with press are not compensable.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.