Valcarce v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 206 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 208 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State Ex Rel. E.R. (2001), State v. Killpack (2008)
1 federal appellate · 206 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 State v. Pena · State v. Walker · State v. Ramirez · State v. Copeland · Dixie State Bank v. Bracken
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 208 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[When a party who received attorney fees below prevails on appeal, the party is also entitled to fees reasonably incurred on appeal.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well established that an appellate court will decline to consider an argument that a party has failed to adequately brief.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Rbfs · MacKay v. Hardy“Whether attorney fees are recoverable in an action is a question of law, which we review for correctness.”
12 later decisions 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.