Continental Illinois Securities Litigation: Steinlauf v. Continental Illinois Corporation Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Eiger’s Empirical Analysis
962 F.2d 566 · 1992
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 24 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 278 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Staton v. Boeing Co. (2003), Goldberger v. Integrated Resources, Inc. (2000)
89 federal appellate · 24 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Blanchard v. Bergeron · Missouri v. Jenkins Ex Rel. Agyei · Boeing Co. v. Van Gemert
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 278 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not the function of judges in fee litigation to determine the equivalent of the medieval just price. It is to determine what the lawyer would receive if he were selling his services in the market rather than being paid by court order.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the object in awarding a reasonable attorney's fee ... is to give the lawyer what he would have gotten ... in an arm's length transaction, had one been feasible.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f reimbursement at market rates is disallowed, the effect will be to induce lawyers to substitute their own, more expensive time for that of . . . the computer.”
8 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.