Clarke v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 1146 · 1992
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 9 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Saulpaugh v. Monroe Community Hospital (1993), Cruz v. Local Union Number of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (1994)
35 federal appellate · 9 district · 9 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In calculating the number of `reasonable hours,' the court looks to `its own familiarity with the case and its experience with the case and its experience generally as well as to the evidentiary submissions and arguments of the parties.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because attorney's fees are dependent on the unique facts of each case, the resolution of this issue is committed to the discretion of the district court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is ordinarily an abuse of discretion not to include pre-judgment interest in a back-pay award.”
7 later decisions 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.