Jackson v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2000
10 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. § 1383 (§ 1631 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Ingraham v. Wright · Action on Smoking & Health v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Valente v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 96,131
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be based upon prevailing market rates for the kind and quality of the services furnished, except that ... attorney’s fees shall not be awarded in excess of $75 per hour unless the court determines that an increase in the cost of living ... justifies a higher fee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the extent that any other party would be liable under the common law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baker v. Bowen
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.