Green v. Torres

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that attorney's fees are awarded in civil rights statutes \to encourage private enforcement ... to the benefit of the public as a whole.\
• “most important factor” in determining the appropriate fee award is “the degree of success obtained by the plaintiff’
• “[W]e defer to the District Court’s judgment that the overall fee award should be reduced by twenty percent.”
• “Hensley explicitly permits the type of fee reduction crafted by the District Court when a reduction is necessary to align the fee award with the plaintiff’s degree of success.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Khaled Kassim v. City of Schenectady and Michael T. Brockbank
  Second Circuit· 2005-07-18· cited 175×
• Stephen Tancredi and Ronald Speidel v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York Stock Company, and Metlife, Inc., a Delaware Holding Company
  Second Circuit· 2004-08-09· cited 155×
• Adorno v. Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
  S.D. New York· 2010-02-19· cited 48×
• Green v. Torres
  Second Circuit· 2004-03-11· cited 44×
• Healey v. Leavitt
  Second Circuit· 2007-04-17· cited 39×
• Barrella v. Village of Freeport
  E.D. New York· 2014-08-28· cited 31×
• Malletier v. Apex Creative International Corp.
  S.D. New York· 2010-01-05· cited 30×
• Dancy v. McGinley
  S.D. New York· 2015-09-21· cited 26×
• Granite Music Corp. v. Center Street Smoke House, Inc.
  W.D. New York· 2011-05-19· cited 25×
• Anderson v. Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority
  W.D. New York· 2005-09-20· cited 17×
• King v. JCS Enterprises, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2004-07-13· cited 17×
• Luessenhop v. Clinton County, NY
  N.D. New York· 2008-03-28· cited 16×
• Century 21 Real Estate LLC v. Bercosa Corp.
  E.D. New York· 2009-09-18· cited 16×
• Betancourt v. Giuliani
  S.D. New York· 2004-07-13· cited 12×
• Kennedy v. Supreme Forest Prods., Inc.
  D. Connecticut· 2017-12-15· cited 8×
• Catanzano v. Doar
  W.D. New York· 2005-07-27· cited 6×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hensley v. Eckerhart
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-16· cited 17,202×
• Mary C. Quaratino v. Tiffany & Co., Michael Eiring and David Wright
  Second Circuit· 1999-01-26· cited 332×
• LeBlanc-Sternberg v. Fletcher
  Second Circuit· 1998-05-13· cited 249×
• United States v. Jacobson
  Second Circuit· 1994-01-19· cited 184×
• Webb v. Sloan
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-05-29· cited 105×
• Robert Orchano v. Advanced Recovery, Inc., Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff, Bank of New Haven, Defendant-Third-Party-Defendant-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1997-02-11· cited 77×
• Green v. Torres
  S.D. New York· 2003-11-13· cited 4×
• Green v. Torres
  Second Circuit· 2003-03-07· cited 3×