Griffin & Dickson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2016
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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 · 41 U.S.C. § 321 · 41 U.S.C. § 607 · 5 U.S.C. § 504 (Equal Access to Justice Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 554 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · United States v. Testan · Pierce v. Underwood · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council
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 24 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, in addition to any costs awarded pursuant to subsection (a), incurred by that party in any civil action ... brought by or against the United States ... unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Given the use of the word 'may,' however, a request for costs is within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“28 U.S.C. § 2412(d)(1)(A) (emphasis added). This passage means that a prevailing party can expect an award of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.