Merrell v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
809 F.2d 639 · 1987
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Oregon Environmental Council v. Kunzman (1987), Chiu v. United States (1991)
25 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 15 U.S.C. § 1640 (§ 130 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 4821 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Spencer v. National Labor Relations Board · DeBardeleben v. United States · Gregory Bernard Roberts v. Maryland · Dougherty v. Lehman
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court's interpretation of the EAJA, however, is subject to de novo review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“misus[ing] the discovery process [to] pay "the reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred by any one as a result of that conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Liu v. Schwartz“Congress intended that an attorney have been retained for a prevailing pro se litigant to recover attorneys fees under the EAJA.”
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.