Porter v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 920 · 1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2010
9 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 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Arnett v. Kennedy · Porter v. Califano · Cinciarelli v. Reagan · Ashburn v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is 'incumbent upon the government to abandon its opposition to the other party as soon as it becomes apparent that its litigation stance is not substantially justified.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“district court victory may be evidence that the government's position was justified”
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.