Heath v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2012
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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7430 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 38 U.S.C. § 5314 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · California v. LaRue · Messenger v. Anderson · Rosewell Messinger v. Peter Anderson · Basso v. Utah Power & Light Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court shall award to a prevailing party other than the United States fees and other expenses ... incurred by that party in any civil action ..., brought by or against the United States in any court having jurisdiction of that action, unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that other special circumstances make an award unjust.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“award EAJA fees unless it had jurisdiction to award the relief requested during the merits litigation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hudson v. Principi
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.