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← 960 F.2d 1187 - No. 91-3476

No. 91-3476’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
July 2017
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2017

5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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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 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Osterneck v. Ernst & Whinney · 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc.

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

  1. “[i]t is undisputed that prejudgment interest typically is granted to make a plaintiff whole because the defendant may wrongfully benefit from the plaintiff's money.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “(1) the offending parties’ culpability or bad faith; (2) the ability of the offending parties to satisfy an award of attorney’s fees; (3) the deterrent effect of an award of attorney’s fees against the offending party; (4) the benefit conferred on members of the plan as a whole; and (5) the relative merits of the parties’ positions.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “offering no explanation for its decision to award attorney's fees”
    2 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.