Rawlings v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
725 F.2d 1192 · 1984
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Charles Laduke v. Alan C. Nelson, Etc. (1985), Jean v. Nelson (1988)
97 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Hutto v. Finney · Kerr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California · Ed. Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., a Corporation, Richard A. Perkins, Counsel for Ed Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., a Corporation, H. O'Neil Shanks, and Norman Stevans, Richard A. Perkins, Counsel For · Spencer v. National Labor Relations Board
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the remedial purpose of the EAJA is best served by considering the totality of the circumstances prelitigation and during trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the government can show that its case had a reasonable basis both in law and in fact, no award shall be made ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[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.”
2 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.