Carter v. Veterans Administration’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 1479 · 1986
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably City of Auburn v. United States Government (1998), Zalaski v. City of Hartford (2013)
30 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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 15 U.S.C. § 1640 (§ 130 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Hall v. Beals · Akers v. United States · Israel v. Futuronics Corp. · Brockington v. Rhodes · Pena v. Seguros La Comercial
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“attorney fee issues are ancillary to the underlying action and survive independently under the court's equitable jurisdiction”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Granting full access to the requested documents, as was done in this case, terminates a FOIA action....”
1 later decision 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.