What is the starting point of every fee award in a personal injury case?

" 'The starting point of every fee award, once it is recognized that the court's role in equity is to provide just compensation for the attorney must be a calculation of the attorney's services in terms of the time he has expended on the case. Anchoring the analysis to this concept is the only way of approaching the problem that can claim objectivity, a claim which is obviously vital to the prestige of the bar and the courts.' (City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corp. (2d Cir.1974) 495 F.2d 448, 470; ...)" (Italics added.)