National Association of Concerned Veterans v. Secretary of Defense Green’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 214 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 375 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Hugh L. Carey, Individually and as Governor of the State of New York (1983), 572 F. Supp. 354 - Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. (1983)
12 federal appellate · 214 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corporation, Manhattan-Ward, Incorporated v. Grinnell Corporation, 1225 Vine Street Building, Inc. v. Grinnell Corporation · Copeland v. Marshall · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · Lewis v. United States · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.
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 375 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]asual after-the-fact estimates of time expended on a case are insufficient to support an award of attorneys' fees. Attorneys who anticipate making a fee application must maintain contemporaneous, complete and standardized time records which accurately reflect the work done by each attorney.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... Just as the applicant cannot submit a conclusory application, an opposing party does not meet his burden merely by asserting broad challenges to the application. It is not enough for an opposing party simply to state, for example, that the hours claimed are excessive and the rates submitted too high.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]n applicant is required to provide specific evidence of the prevailing community rate for the type of work for which he seeks an award.”
5 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.