Eddleman v. Switchcraft, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
965 F.2d 422 · 1992
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably McNabola v. Chicago Transit Authority (1993), Gusman v. Unisys Corp. (1993)
14 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · City of Riverside v. Rivera · Blanchard v. Bergeron
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The market rate is 'the rate that lawyers of similar ability and experience in the community normally charge their paying clients for the type of work in question.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“usually are subsumed within the initial calculation of hours reasonably expended at a reasonable hourly rate,”
1 later decision 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.