In re Fine Paper Antitrust Litigation’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2005 · most notably Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air (1987), Mares v. Credit Bureau of Raton (1986)
3 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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. § 1407
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois · Precision Instrument Mfg Co v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery Co
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this litigation, it was not unusual for senior partners to devote a great deal of time to clerical and administrative and investigative tasks such as document re- . view. Partners will not be compensated at partner-level rates for tasks which are customarily performed by junior associates or paralegals.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“14.3 hours are supported by entries which are too vague to provide any basis for determining if the time spent was of value to the class.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Firrn Hours Freeman, Atkins & Coleman, Ltd. 12.17 App. J 176 Robert S. Atkins partner time for reviewing various discovery documents reduced to associate level. Robert C. Goldberg partner 112.6 App. J 178 time for reviewing Champion discovery documents and Federal Trade Commission documents, and attending discovery of client Campbell Paper Co. reduced to associate level. Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Eiger, P.C. Lawrence H. Eiger partner 86.8 App. J 253 time for reviewing and collating documents, legal research, summarizing depositions and organizing price work sheets, reduced to associate level. Michael J. Freed partner 85.9 App. J 255 time for conferences or on phone with co-counsel reading and reviewing various pleadings and documents filed in the case, drafting a complaint for his client and attending depositions taken by others, reduced to associate level. Firm Hours Robert A. Skirnick partner 74.4 App. J 256 time for document review, research, and drafting motions, reduced to associate level. Anthony C. Yaliulis partner 3.3 App. J 257 time for legal research and drafting motions reduced to associate level. O’Brien & Hallisey Jeremiah F. Hallisey partner 219.55 App. J 276 time for general research, conference time, correspondence, and review which could readily have been performed by an associate, reduced to associate level. Sachnoff, Weaver & Rubenstein, Ltd. Dean A. Dickie partner 53.75 App. J 352 time for scheduling, preparing indices, and inspecting microfilm ”
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.