Cartledge v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2000
2 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 406 (§ 206 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Glendal B. Webb v. Elliot L. Richardson · MacDonald v. Weinberger · Watford v. Heckler · Morris v. Social Security Administration · Lewis v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a court renders a judgment favorable to a claimant ... who was represented before the court by an attorney, the court may determine and allow as part of its judgment a reasonable fee for such representation, not in excess of 25 percent of the total of the past-due benefits to which the claimant is entitled by reason of such judgment____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In case of any such judgment, no other fee may be payable or certified for payment for such representation except as provided in this paragraph.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Heckler“[U]nder 28 U.S.C. S 2412(d)(1)(A), as under other fee-shifting statutes, the fee award is really in addition to and not part of the judgment.”
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.