Castañeda-Castillo v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
723 F.3d 48 · 2013
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1834 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2347 · 28 U.S.C. § 2349 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 12205 (§ 505 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 3613 (§ 813 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Pierce v. Underwood · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
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 15 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, in addition to any costs awarded pursuant to subsection (a), 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The plaintiff's] proposed hourly rate ... [is] based upon the most recent Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) published by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Commissioner does not dispute these rates and the Court finds them to be reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Given that the government does not oppose [the plaintiff]'s request for a cost-of-living adjustment, or that said adjustment be computed based on the regional, as opposed to national, CPI, we find that [the plaintiff] is eligible for the requested enhancement.”
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.