In Re Oliver L. North (Dutton Fee Application)’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably In Re Oliver L. North (Bush Fee Application) (1995), In re Pierce (1999)
67 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kastigar v. United States · Soriano v. United States · United States v. North · Olson v. 86-1 · In re Sealed Case
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he most difficult element for a fee applicant to establish under the Act is that the fees `would not have been incurred but for the requirements of [the Act].'”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Segal · In re Segal“the Independent Counsel might reasonably be expected to point the finger of accusation”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an individual who is the subject of an investigation conducted by an independent counsel.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.