In Re Oliver North (Gardner Fee Application)’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
51
cited by 51 later decisions
July 2006
most recently cited
21 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Olson v. 86-1 · In Re Oliver L. North (Dutton Fee Application) · In re Sealed Case · In Re Raymond J Donovan · In Re Edwin Meese III
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“makes it impossible for the court to verify the reasonableness of the billings, either as to the necessity of the particular service or the amount of time expended on a given legal task.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the `defensive monitoring' of the ongoing prosecution [brought by the Independent Counsel]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“officials [and here derivative 'subjects'] who are investigated by independent counsels will be subject only to paying those attorneys' fees that would normally be paid by private citizens being investigated for the same offense by”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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