Lipsett v. Blanco’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 934 · 1992
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 112 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 228 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Gay Officers Action League v. Puerto Rico (2001), McMillan v. Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1998)
79 federal appellate · 112 district · 12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council
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 228 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trial court's discretion in respect to fee awards is extremely broad.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause determination of the extent of a reasonable fee necessarily involves a series of judgment calls, an appellate court is far more likely to defer to the trial court in reviewing fee computations than in many other situations.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. French · Bogan v. City of Boston“clerical or secretarial tasks ought not to be billed at lawyers' rates, even if a lawyer performs them.”
4 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.