Atkins v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
154 F.3d 986 · 1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2017
2 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean · Clark v. City of Los Angeles · Schwarz v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Outdoor Systems, Inc. v. City of Mesa
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district court's task of determining what fee is reasonable is essentially the same as that described in Hensley”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sorenson v. Mink
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.