Cornella v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
741 F.2d 170 · 1984
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2008 · most notably Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean (1990), Haitian Refugee Center v. Meese (1986)
18 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 5 U.S.C. § 504 (Equal Access to Justice Act)
Relies on United States v. Mendoza · Cornella v. Schweiker · Rawlings v. Heckler · Cinciarelli v. Reagan · Wolverton v. Heckler
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the Secretary's position in resisting an award of fees, as opposed to her position in denying disability benefits, was reasonable, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all of the purely legal issues were questions of first impression”
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.