Gates’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 29 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Staton v. Boeing Co. (2003), Miller National Labor Relations Board v. California Pacific Medical Center (1994)
25 federal appellate · 29 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 10 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 · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Blum v. Stenson · Califano v. Sanders · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission
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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district court has a great deal of discretion in determining the reasonableness of the fee and, as a general rule, we defer to its determination.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin Stivers Mary Chase Ernsberger Chamar, Inc. v. Richard Pierce George D. Wendell Denise Conrad Gary T. Robey Brian McKay Robert J. Rodefer Individually and as Members of the Nevada State Private Investigators Licensing Board Nevada State Private Investigators Licensing Board and Does 1-20, and Carol Widmer-Hanna Bill Bertram, Martin Stivers v. Richard Pierce George D. Wendell Denise Conrad Gary T. Robey Brian McKay Robert J. Rodefer Individually and as Members of the Nevada State Private Investigators Licensing Board Nevada State Private Investigators Licensing Board and Does 1-10, and Carol Widmer-Hanna Bill Bertram · Jay Lee Gates John Ronald Bertram v. James Gomez Nadim Khoury, M.D., Assistant Deputy Director--Cdc Health Services Kenneth Shepard, Chief Deputy Warden for Cmf Clinical Nicholas Poulos, M.D. Thor Daniel, Chief Physician and Surgeon, Cmf Paul Morentz, Chief Psychiatrist--Cmf Outpatient Program, H Md Bruce Baker, a R Md, Chief Psychiatrist Northern Reception Center D. Michael O'COnnOr Douglas G. Arnold, Acting Director of the California Department of Mental Health Clyde Murrey, Acting Deputy Director for State Hospitals Sylvia Rn, Executive Director Dmh Vacaville Psychiatric Program Eddie Yslt, and George Deukmejian, Jay Lee Gates v. James Gomez, and George Deukmejian, Governor““[t]he party opposing the fee application has a burden of rebuttal that requires submission of evidence to the ... court challenging the accuracy and reasonableness of the hours charged or the facts asserted by the prevailing party in its submitted affidavits.” ... The court may reduce the applicant’s hours where documentation of the hours is inadequate, if the case was over-staffed and hours were du-plicative, and if the hours expended were unnecessary or excessive.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen faced with a massive fee application the district court has the authority to make across-the-board percentage cuts either in the number of hours claimed or in the final lodestar figure “as a practical means of trimming the fat from a fee application.””
3 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.