NAACP v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Spencer v. National Labor Relations Board (1983), Action on Smoking & Health v. Civil Aeronautics Board (1984)
8 federal appellate · 11 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
Relies on New York Gaslight Club, Inc. v. Carey · Copeland v. Marshall · National Association of Concerned Veterans v. Secretary of Defense Green · Parker v. Califano · Parker v. Matthews
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the burden of proof is always on the applicant to prove entitlement to fees”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.