Wheat v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
763 F.2d 1025 · 1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Jackson v. Bowen (1986), Gamber v. Bowen (1987)
16 federal appellate · 1 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on McCoy v. Schweiker · Brand v. Secretary of Department of Health Education and Welfare · Miranda v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Cornella v. Schweiker · Northcutt v. Califano
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] court shall award to a prevailing party other than the United States fees and other expenses, in addition to any costs awarded pursuant to subsection [2412] (a), incurred by that party in any civil action (other than cases sounding in tort), including proceedings for judicial review of agency action, brought by or against the United States ... unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'certain types of case dispositions may indicate that the government action was not substantially justified. A court should look closely at cases, for example, where there has been a judgment on the pleadings, or where there is a directed verdict * * *. Such cases clearly raise the possibility that the government was unreasonable in pursuing the litigation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trundle v. Bowen“perform the requisite physical acts day in and day out, in the sometimes competitive and stressful conditions in which real people work in the real world.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martonik v. Heckler
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.