Pullen v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
820 F.2d 105 · 1987
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Welter v. Sullivan (1991), Cummings v. Sullivan (1991)
29 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 United States v. Locke · Guthrie v. Schweiker · Tyler Business Services, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. Acres of Land More or Less Situate in Vernon County State of Missouri · Gavette v. Office of Personnel Management
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n practice, any difference between the 'reasonable in fact and law', the 'more than merely reasonable', and the 'clearly reasonable' standards appears more semantic than real.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“); United States v. 1,378.65 Acres of Land, 794 F.2d 1313 , 1318 (8th Cir.1986) (”
3 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.