Gagne v. Maher

How courts have described this case

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

• district judge “may refuse further compensation or grant it sparingly” where “time devoted to presenting [fee claims] is unnecessarily high”
• legislative history “impliedly” supported fully compensatory fees for fee awards because Senate Report cited Stanford
• “district court did not commit error in disallowing one-half of the hours worked because ‘the issues involved in the case were relatively simple and most attorneys would not have spent so many hours on the case’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-04· cited 1,875×
• New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Hugh L. Carey, Individually and as Governor of the State of New York
  Second Circuit· 1983-06-15· cited 1,038×
• Joann S. Reed, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. A.W. Lawrence & Co., Inc., Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1996-09-11· cited 519×
• Lilly v. City of N.Y.
  Second Circuit· 2019-08-14· cited 297×
• Serrano v. Unruh
  California Supreme Court· 1982-10-28· cited 293×
• Porzig v. Dresdner, Kleinwort, Benson, North America LLC
  Second Circuit· 2007-08-07· cited 218×
• Dennis v. Chang
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-01-21· cited 115×
• Larry Weyant, Charles Weyant v. George S. Okst, Irvin Richard Weber, Joseph Peter Auberger, Lawrence Mueller
  Second Circuit· 1999-12-02· cited 108×
• Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York
  E.D. New York· 1986-05-23· cited 99×
• Seigal v. Merrick
  Second Circuit· 1980-03-17· cited 75×
• Holley v. Lavine
  Second Circuit· 1979-07-13· cited 52×
• Bonner v. Guccione
  Second Circuit· 1999-04-30· cited 47×
• Mautner v. Hirsch
  Second Circuit· 1994-08-05· cited 45×
• Frank R. Annunziato v. The Gan, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1984-06-26· cited 40×
• Savoie v. Merchants Bank
  Second Circuit· 1999-01-28· cited 39×
• Calkins v. Blum
  N.D. New York· 1981-04-15· cited 37×
• Donald K. Hall v. Western Production Company
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-03-16· cited 36×
• Wilder v. Bernstein
  S.D. New York· 1997-08-12· cited 32×
• Hines v. City of Albany
  Second Circuit· 2017-07-06· cited 25×
• Ganguly v. New York State Department of Mental Hygiene-Dunlap Manhattan Psychiatric Center
  S.D. New York· 1981-03-25· cited 24×

Cites

60 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs
  Supreme Court· 1966-03-28· cited 13,852×
• Edelman v. Jordan
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-13· cited 6,517×
• Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness Society
  Supreme Court· 1975-05-12· cited 4,586×
• Hagans v. Lavine
  Supreme Court· 1974-03-25· cited 2,844×
• Hutto v. Finney
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-15· cited 2,261×
• Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-28· cited 1,679×
• City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corporation, Manhattan-Ward, Incorporated v. Grinnell Corporation, 1225 Vine Street Building, Inc. v. Grinnell Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1974-03-13· cited 1,333×
• Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
  Supreme Court· 1978-10-02· cited 910×
• Katzenbach v. Morgan
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 759×
• Arthur Ray PARHAM, Appellant, v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO., Appellee
  Eighth Circuit· 1970-10-28· cited 441×
• Reyher v. Children's Television Workshop
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-29· cited 235×
• Director of Civil Service of Massachusetts v. Boston Chapter, N.A.A.C.P., Inc.
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 1975-04-14· cited 226×
• Mitchell G. King, Jr. v. Milton Greenblatt
  First Circuit· 1977-08-15· cited 221×
• Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.
  Third Circuit· 1976-07-02· cited 215×
• Coleman v. Conservation Society of Southern Vermont, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1975-10-06· cited 208×
• Morrow v. Dillard
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-09-29· cited 189×
• Prandini v. National Tea Co.
  Third Circuit· 1978-07-19· cited 179×
• Domenic Lund v. John J. Affleck, Doris Palmieri v. John J. Affleck, Inmates of the Boys' Training School v. Bradford E. Southworth
  First Circuit· 1978-11-21· cited 174×
• Rios v. Enterprise Ass'n Steamfitters, Local No. 638
  Supreme Court· 1977-02-28· cited 174×
• Dr. Joseph T. Skehan v. Board of Trustees of Bloomsburg State College
  Third Circuit· 1974-06-11· cited 172×