Premachandra v. Mitts’s Empirical Analysis
753 F.2d 635 · 1985
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Martin v. Heckler (1985), Keasler v. United States (1985)
30 federal appellate · 7 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. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Maine v. Thiboutot
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless expressly prohibited by statute, a court may award reasonable fees and expenses of attorneys, in addition to the costs which may be awarded pursuant to subsection (a), to the prevailing party in any civil action brought by or against the United States or any agency and any official of the United States acting in his or her official capacity in any court having jurisdiction of such action. The United States shall be liable for such fees and expenses to the same extent that any other party would be liable under the common law or under the terms of any statute which specifically provides for such an award.””
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 ... unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“President Reagan's refusal to sign H.R. 5479, the bill that the report accompanied, deprives this statement of authoritative content.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.