Cobell v. Babbitt

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• requiring a near ‘but for’ relationship where court ordered fees “caused by defendants’ failure to obey” discovery orders
• awarding attorney’s fees as a contempt sanction where defendants “proposed a clear and unambiguous order for this court’s signature” but then proceeded to violate the order once it was signed
• assessing reasonable attorneys’ fees against defendants for civil contempt of court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Cobell, Elouise v. Norton, Gale A.
  D.C. Circuit· 2001-02-23· cited 265×
• Miller v. Holzmann
  District of Columbia· 2008-08-12· cited 52×
• Cobell v. Babbitt
  District of Columbia· 1999-12-21· cited 47×
• Cobell v. Norton
  District of Columbia· 2005-12-19· cited 41×
• Cobell v. Norton
  District of Columbia· 2002-11-12· cited 41×
• Tequila Centinela, S.A. de C.V. v. Bacardi & Co.
  District of Columbia· 2008-03-04· cited 31×
• Cobell v. Norton
  District of Columbia· 2002-09-17· cited 23×
• Davis v. District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency,et Al
  District of Columbia· 2014-06-04· cited 20×
• Covad Communications Company v. Revonet Inc
  District of Columbia· 2010-03-31· cited 19×
• Woodland v. Viacom Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2008-11-25· cited 15×
• Miller v. Holzmann
  D.C. Circuit· 2008-08-12· cited 8×
• Fonville v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 2014-04-14· cited 5×
• Alvarado v. Rainbow Inn, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2015-11-19· cited 5×
• Cobell v. Norton
  District of Columbia· 2004-05-27· cited 4×
• Azamar v. Stern Enterprises, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2011-12-19· cited 4×
• Walker v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 2016-05-12· cited 4×
• Woodland v. Viacom Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2008-11-24· cited 1×
• Smith v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 2016-12-06· cited 1×
• Martinez v. Asian 328, LLC
  District of Columbia· 2016-04-27
• Smith v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 2016-12-06

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hensley v. Eckerhart
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-16· cited 17,202×
• Dolores J. Copeland, Individually and on Behalf of the Class of All Others Similarly Situated v. F. Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor
  D.C. Circuit· 1980-09-02· cited 989×
• National Ass'n of Concerned Veterans v. Secretary of Defense
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-04-23· cited 402×
• Covington v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 1995-06-23· cited 317×
• General William C. Westmoreland, Ambassador Richard Helms v. Cbs, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1985-08-20· cited 268×
• Weisberg v. Webster
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-12-07· cited 69×
• Turnbull v. Wilcken
  Tenth Circuit· 1990-01-03· cited 59×
• Stephen D. Zook, Cross-Appellee v. Joseph T. Brown, William v. Mosher and Champaign County, Cross-Appellants
  Seventh Circuit· 1989-01-17· cited 45×
• In Re Oliver L. North (Gadd Fee Application)
  D.C. Circuit· 1994-01-07· cited 34×
• Cobell v. Babbitt
  District of Columbia· 1999-02-22· cited 33×
• Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Reilly
  D.C. Circuit· 1993-07-13· cited 19×
• Jones v. Clinton
  E.D. Arkansas· 1999-07-29· cited 12×
• Orson, Inc. v. Miramax Film, Corp.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1998-07-21· cited 6×
• Shepherd v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1994-09-13· cited 4×
• Kennecott Corp. v. Environmental Protection Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 1986-11-07· cited 3×