Rode v. Dellarciprete

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing district court has discretion “to disallow any fees for time spent litigating the case after the last benefit is won from the defendant”
• recognizing that a party “block bills at his own peril”
• explaining that specificity should only be required to the extent necessary for a court “to determine if the hours claimed are unreasonable for the work performed”
• “[T]he district court has the discretion to make certain adjustments to the lodestar.”
• “The district court should exclude hours that are not reasonably calculated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Donlin v. Philips Lighting North America Corp.
  Third Circuit· 2009-09-09· cited 132×
• Jill Mancini v. Northampton County
  Third Circuit· 2016-09-09· cited 49×
• Lease v. Fishel
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2010-04-01· cited 39×
• Andre De Garmeaux v. Dnv Concepts, Inc. T/a
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2016-12-20· cited 34×
• United States Ex Rel. Doe v. Pennsylvania Blue Shield
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 1999-06-16· cited 17×
• Magwood v. Astrue
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2009-01-21· cited 17×
• Valenti v. Allstate Insurance Co.
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2003-01-27· cited 12×
• Walton v. Massanari
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2001-08-20· cited 12×
• Solow v. PPI Enterprises (U.S.), Inc. (In Re PPI Enterprises (U.S.), Inc.)
  Third Circuit· 2003-03-28· cited 12×
• Thomas Kairys v. Southern Pines Trucking Inc
  Third Circuit· 2023-07-25· cited 11×
• Norton v. Wilshire Credit Corp.
  D. New Jersey· 1999-02-17· cited 9×
• Watcher v. Pottsville Area Emergency Medical Service, Inc.
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2008-04-28· cited 9×
• Interfaith Community Organization v. Honeywell International, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 2005-10-19· cited 9×
• Artem Gelis v. BMW of North America LLC
  Third Circuit· 2022-09-09· cited 9×
• Baughman v. United States Liability Insurance
  D. New Jersey· 2010-07-13· cited 7×
• Orson, Inc. v. Miramax Film, Corp.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1998-07-21· cited 6×
• BCS Services, Incorporated v. BG Investments, Incorporated
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-08-23· cited 6×
• Haymond v. Lundy
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2002-03-18· cited 5×
• Doe v. Terhune
  D. New Jersey· 2000-11-28· cited 5×
• Robinson v. Fetterman
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2005-08-26· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Hensley v. Eckerhart
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-16· cited 17,202×
• Blum v. Stenson
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-21· cited 7,642×
• Rode v. Dellarciprete
  Third Circuit· 1988-04-28· cited 2,709×
• Missouri v. Jenkins Ex Rel. Agyei
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-19· cited 1,583×
• Mattie Norman, Clara Marshall, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. The Housing Authority of the City of Montgomery
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-02-01· cited 1,349×
• Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-26· cited 955×
• Marie Lucie Jean v. Alan C. Nelson
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-12-27· cited 505×
• Rode v. Dellarciprete
  Third Circuit· 1990-01-04· cited 421×
• Ursic v. Bethlehem Mines
  Third Circuit· 1983-10-19· cited 250×
• Jaime Blum, Brij Kapur and James C. Spitsbergen, in 86-5349 v. Witco Chemical Corporation, in 86-5310
  Third Circuit· 1987-10-02· cited 241×
• Martha Johnson and Delores J. Ceballos, Etc. v. University College of the University of Alabama in Birmingham George W. Campbell, Etc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-06-10· cited 230×
• Maria Difilippo and Raina Difilippo, by Her Mother and Next Friend Maria Difilippo, Cross-Appellees v. Tullio Morizio, Cross-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 1985-04-05· cited 186×
• Student Public Interest Research Group of New Jersey, Inc. And Friends of the Earth, in 86-5927 v. At & T Bell Laboratories, in 86-5895
  Third Circuit· 1988-03-24· cited 180×
• Prandini v. National Tea Co.
  Third Circuit· 1978-07-19· cited 179×
• Bell v. United Princeton Properties, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1989-09-05· cited 121×
• Clark v. City of Los Angeles
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-10-29· cited 120×
• Institutionalized Juveniles v. Secretary of Public Welfare
  Third Circuit· 1985-03-26· cited 102×
• Baughman v. Wilson Freight Forwarding Co.
  Third Circuit· 1978-07-18· cited 98×
• Davidson v. Connecticut Bank & Trust Co.
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-09· cited 90×
• Pawlak v. Greenawalt
  Third Circuit· 1983-07-29· cited 81×