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.

• holding that “[a] fee petition is required to be specific enough to allow the district court ‘to determine if the hours claimed are unreasonable for the work performed.’ ”
• explaining that objections must be sufficiently specific to “serve the ... function of putting the applicant on notice that it must defend its fee position”
• explaining that an attorney fee award cannot be decreased based on factors not raised by the adverse party
• rejecting attorney affidavits submitted to support fee application as insufficient to establish relevant market’s treatment of contingency cases
• excluding the number of hours spent litigating claims on which the party did not succeed
• affirming district court conclusion that the hours devoted to the motion to dismiss were sufficiently separate among the defendants to warrant deduction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rendine v. Pantzer
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1995-07-24· cited 642×
• Sandra Cortez v. Trans Union
  Third Circuit· 2010-08-13· cited 391×
• Abrams v. Lightolier Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1995-03-24· cited 346×
• McKenna v. City of Philadelphia
  Third Circuit· 2009-10-02· cited 298×
• Hurley v. Atlantic City Police Department
  Third Circuit· 1999-05-11· cited 276×
• Brown v. Borough of Chambersburg
  Third Circuit· 1990-05-21· cited 267×
• Martin O. Washington v. Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, Martin Washington
  Third Circuit· 1996-07-09· cited 238×
• Keenan v. City of Philadelphia
  Third Circuit· 1992-12-17· cited 237×
• Mabel A. King v. James F. Palmer, Director, D.C. Department of Corrections Mabel A. King v. James F. Palmer, Director, D.C. Department of Corrections
  D.C. Circuit· 1991-12-13· cited 233×
• Edwin Maldonado v. Feather O. Houstoun
  Third Circuit· 2001-06-27· cited 192×
• Ernest Dague, Sr., Ernest Dague, Jr., Betty Dague, and Rose A. Bessette v. City of Burlington
  Second Circuit· 1991-06-12· cited 185×
• Furst v. Einstein Moomjy, Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2004-11-15· cited 175×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1996-06-26· cited 159×
• Catherine M. Loughner v. The University Of Pittsburgh
  Third Circuit· 2001-07-18· cited 149×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 2001-11-28· cited 136×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 2001-03-05· cited 134×
• United States v. Eleven Vehicles, Their Equipment and Accessories
  Third Circuit· 2000-01-07· cited 132×
• In Re: Orthopedic Bone Screw Products Liability Litigation Alexander Sambolin
  Third Circuit· 2001-04-16· cited 129×
• Rode v. Dellarciprete
  Third Circuit· 1990-01-04· cited 128×
• Jacqueline Watson, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (\Septa\), Appellee/cross-Appellant
  Third Circuit· 2000-03-20· cited 128×

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×
• 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×
• Cunningham v. City of McKeesport
  Third Circuit· 1985-01-15· cited 78×