Doty v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
71 F.3d 384 · 1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably 51 Cal. App. 4th 1180 - Lennane v. Franchise Tax Board (1996), Bowey v. West (2000)
4 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2412
Relies on Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean · Chiu v. United States · Gavette v. Office of Personnel Management · Tyler Business Services, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Marcus v. Shalala
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ejxeept as otherwise specifically provided by statute, 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), including proceedings for judicial review of agency action, 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by the agency upon which the civil action is based.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that the “position” is again denominated in the singular, although it may encompass both the agency’s prelitigation conduct and the Department of Justice’s subsequent litigation positions, buttresses the conclusion that only one threshold determination for the entire civil action is to be made.”
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.