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11 canonical passages across 10 cases, quoted by 2,489 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Hensley v. Eckerhart.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hensley v. Eckerhart Anchor | red | “the most useful starting point for determining the amount of a reasonable fee is the number of hours reasonably expended on the litigation multiplied by a reasonable hourly rate.” | 1,219 |
| 2 | Hensley v. Eckerhart | red | “a request for attorney's fees should not result in a second major litigation.” | 502 |
| 3 | Blum v. Stenson | green | “prevailing market rates in the relevant community.” | 420 |
| 4 | Fox v. Vice | green | “trial courts may take into account their overall sense of a suit, and may use estimates in calculating and allocating an attorney's time.” | 162 |
| 5 | Webb v. County Board of Education | green | “useful and of a type ordinarily necessary” | 67 |
| 6 | Caldo Mares and Sally Mares, His Wife v. Credit Bureau of Raton, and Janet Yarbrough, Individually, and in Her Official Capacity | green | “it remains counsel's burden to prove and establish the reasonableness of each dollar, each hour, above zero.” | 39 |
| 7 | Federal Deposit Insurance v. Mallen | green | “an important government interest, accompanied by a substantial assurance that the deprivation is not baseless or unwarranted, may in limited cases demanding prompt action justify postponing the opportunity to be heard until after the initial deprivation.” | 38 |
| 8 | John Brown v. Steve Brienen | green | “we must bear in mind that the fourteenth amendment was not intended to shift the whole of the public law of the states into the federal courts.” | 16 |
| 9 | San Bernardino Physicians' Services Medical Group, Inc. v. County of San Bernardino, Board of Supervisors for San Bernardino, Francis L. Comunale | green | “it is neither workable nor within the intent of section 1983 to convert every breach of contract claim against a state into a federal claim.” | 13 |
| 10 | Kohler v. Bed Bath & Beyond of California, LLC | green | “title iii of the ada prohibits discrimination in public accommodations....” | 9 |
| 11 | Perkins v. Cross | green | “time the lawyer spent defending the plaintiffs in the original municipal court proceeding to the extent, if any, that research or investigation done in connection with that proceeding proved directly relevant to the successful prosecution of their later civil rights claims.” | 4 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.