Hyatt v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 250 · 1993
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Williams v. Metropolitan Life Insurance (2010), Mickles v. Shalala (1994)
12 federal appellate · 2 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Pierce v. Underwood · Carnegie v. United States · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Bowen v. City of New York
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.
“Unless expressly prohibited by statute, a court may award reasonable fees and expenses of attorneys ... to the prevailing party in any civil action brought by or against the United States or any agency.... The United States shall be hable for such fees and expenses to the same extent that any other party would be liable under the common law or under the terms of any statute which specifically provides for such an award.”
3 later decisions 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.