Kopunec v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 1226 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Powers v. Commissioner (1993), Tuong Huan Van Dinh v. Reno (1999)
14 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
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison · Hill v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Devine v. Ra Sutermeister · Austin v. Department of Commerce
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] plaintiff prevails for attorney fee purposes if success on a significant issue of litigation achieves some of the benefit the plaintiff sought in bringing the suit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was substantially justified or ... special circumstances make an award unjust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Muhur v. Ashcroft“The court itself may be considered an expert in setting legal fees.”
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.