Center for Science in Public Interest v. Regan’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.2d 518 · 1986
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably Federal Election Commission v. Rose (1986), Wilkett v. Interstate Commerce Commission (1988)
18 federal appellate · 2 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. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Richards 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute before us is exclusively concerned with attorneys' fees and fee petitions; as a result, the plain meaning of 'cases pending' in specifying the effective date of the fee statute 'presumably would be commonly understood to include pending fee applications.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the concerns which prompted the courts to decline to apply retroactively the original EAJA to cases which were closed save for the fee petition are inapplicable in the context of the application of the new definition of 'position' under the new Amendments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the action or failure to act by the agency upon which the civil action is based.”
2 later decisions 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.