Riggers Erectors Inc v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission J Standard Roofing & Sheet Metal Inc’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 426 · 1982
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Spencer v. National Labor Relations Board (1983), Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1983)
67 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 state decisions
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
Relies on Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services · Diamond Roofing Co., Inc. v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and W. J. Usery, the Secretary of Labor, S. D. Mullins Company, Inc. v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and W. J. Usery, the Secretary of Labor, Lance Roofing Company, Inc. v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and W. J. Usery, the Secretary of Labor · Brennan v. Gilles & Cotting, Inc.
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court shall award to a prevailing party other than the United States fees and other expenses ... incurred by that party in any civil action (other than cases sounding in tort) brought by or against the United States in any court having jurisdiction of that action, unless the Court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust, (emphasis supplied).”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“raise a presumption that the Government position was not substantially justified.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a novel but credible extension or interpretation of the law,”
4 later decisions 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.