McDonald v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.2d 311 · 1983
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015 · most notably Melkonyan v. Sullivan (1991), Bittner v. Sadoff & Rudoy Industries (1984)
50 federal appellate · 7 district · 11 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 12 U.S.C. § 93 · 15 U.S.C. § 16 (§ 5 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 28 U.S.C. § 2414 · 31 U.S.C. § 1304 · 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Schweiker v. Hansen · Spencer v. National Labor Relations Board · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Bond v. Stanton · Guthrie v. Schweiker
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“perverse weapon for discouraging meritorious fee applications[,]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he term ... does not have a single fixed meaning.”
6 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.