Spell v. McDaniel

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that time spent reviewing simple aspects of Fourth Circuit procedure is not properly billed to the client where counsels’ experience was basis for their hourly rate
• recognizing that lack of experience in a particular field can affect the lodestar determination
• explaining that “the burden is on the party seeking the fee award to establish the reasonableness of the hours spent”
• imposing a reduction of the fees awarded when it was “impossible . . . to cull in detail the justified from the unjustified”
• allowing only 420 hours of over 1,400 hours claimed for an appeal
• “We have already observed that it is inappropriate to charge defendants for duplicative endeavors and overkill on the part of newly acquired counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rum Creek Coal Sales, Inc. v. Caperton
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-07-25· cited 223×
• Buffington v. Baltimore County
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-07-31· cited 89×
• Unnamed case
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-10-15· cited 82×
• Islamic Center of Mississippi, Inc. v. City of Starkville, Mississippi
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-06-30· cited 68×
• In Re Great Sweats, Inc.
  E.D. Virginia· 1990-04-09· cited 38×
• Singleton v. Domino's Pizza, LLC
  D. Maryland· 2013-10-02· cited 36×
• Boyd v. Coventry Health Care Inc.
  D. Maryland· 2014-01-31· cited 32×
• Ackerley Communications of Massachusetts, Inc. v. City of Somerville
  First Circuit· 1990-01-16· cited 25×
• Alexander S. by and Through Bowers v. Boyd
  D. South Carolina· 1995-11-22· cited 24×
• Houghton v. Sipco, Inc.
  S.D. Iowa· 1993-07-08· cited 21×
• Martin v. Mabus
  S.D. Mississippi· 1990-02-27· cited 16×
• Corral v. Montgomery County
  D. Maryland· 2015-03-09· cited 15×
• Former Employees of BMC Software, Inc. v. United States Secretary of Labor
  Court of International Trade· 2007-10-15· cited 12×
• Stacy v. Stroud
  S.D. West Virginia· 1993-07-27· cited 11×
• Saleh v. Moore
  E.D. Virginia· 2000-05-12· cited 11×
• Lilienthal v. City of Suffolk
  E.D. Virginia· 2004-06-18· cited 11×
• Crump v. United States Dept. of Navy ex rel. Mabus
  E.D. Virginia· 2017-03-27· cited 10×
• Watcher v. Pottsville Area Emergency Medical Service, Inc.
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2008-04-28· cited 9×
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Freeman
  D. Maryland· 2015-09-03· cited 9×
• Wolfe v. Routzahn
  D. Maryland· 2013-06-20· cited 8×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hensley v. Eckerhart
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-16· cited 17,202×
• Blum v. Stenson
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-21· cited 7,642×
• Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-01-21· cited 3,561×
• Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-26· cited 955×
• Spell v. McDaniel
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-07-24· cited 799×
• Ramos v. Lamm
  Tenth Circuit· 1983-06-15· cited 753×
• Northcross v. Board of Education
  Sixth Circuit· 1979-11-23· cited 308×
• Daly v. Hill
  Fourth Circuit· 1986-04-21· cited 243×
• Robins v. Harum
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-10-03· cited 128×
• Jean Hart as Administratrix of the Estate of Levi Hart v. Richard W. Bourque, Jr.
  First Circuit· 1986-08-12· cited 56×
• Spell v. McDaniel
  E.D. North Carolina· 1985-07-10· cited 32×
• Eddie Mitchell Tasby v. Dr. Nolan Estes, General Superintendent, Dallas Independent School District
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-07-17· cited 24×
• Sotomura v. County of Hawaii
  Ninth Circuit· 1982-06-07· cited 9×
• Sun Publishing Co. v. Mecklenburg News, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-07-20· cited 9×
• Hickman v. Valley Local School District Board of Education
  S.D. Ohio· 1981-04-08· cited 8×