reasonable fee
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 535 U.S. 789 - Gisbrecht v. Barnhart · 2002Most cited · 860 citing opinions
not the reasonableness of the agreed-upon contingent fee, but a reasonable recompense for the work actually done.
How often courts cite the case defining “reasonable fee”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “reasonable fee” — 857 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.