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Cherry v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
April 1990
most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412

Relies on United States v. Mitchell · Broad Avenue Laundry & Tailoring v. United States · Ellis v. United States · Gava v. United States · Bailey v. United States

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “defines the position of the United States as 'substantially justified.'”
    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.