Lane v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.2d 18 · 1984
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Sierra Club v. Secretary of the Army (1987), Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Authority v. United States Environmental Protection Agency (1990)
19 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 6166 · 26 U.S.C. § 7421 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Enochs v. Williams Packing & Navigation Co. · American Tobacco Co. v. Patterson · Bob Jones University v. Simon
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except 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 ..., including proceedings for judicial review of agency 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“whether the district court had the power ultimately to decide the merits of the underlying action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“under no circumstances could the Government ultimately prevail”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.