Dillard v. City of Greensboro

How courts have described this case

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

• calling that evidence “powerful, and perhaps the best, evidence of [an attorney’s] market rate”
• referring to “lawyer’s actual billing rate” as “superior evidence” when determining reasonable hourly rate
• acknowledging “there is some inferential evidentiary value to [a] prior award” of attorney’s fees
• determining prior awards may be relevant but, “a court should hesitate to give controlling weight to prior awards . . . over the superior evidence of a lawyer’s actual billing rate”
• “the number of hours (tempered by billing judgment) spent in the legal work on the case”
• “What [an attorney] charges clients is powerful, and perhaps the best, evidence of his [or her] market rate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).