In Re Janet G. Mullins (Mullins Fee Application)’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably In re North (1996), In re Segal (1998)
10 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on United States v. Miller · Wingo v. Wedding · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · National Association of Concerned Veterans v. Secretary of Defense Green · Olson v. 86-1
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.
“First, the court has awarded fees in cases in which the subject is prejudiced by the Department of Justice’s failure to comply with the substantial protective features of the Act.... Second, fees have been awarded because independent counsel’s investigation constituted a substantial duplication of prior investigations .... Third, the court has awarded fees in two cases in which if the requirements of the Act, restricting the Attorney General’s preliminary investigation, did not exist ... the case could have been disposed of at an early stage of the investigation, without seeking appointment of independent counsel.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Mullins · In re Mullins“) under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“), for reimbursement of attorneys' fees and expenses that she incurred during and as a result of the investigation [318 U.S.App.D.C. 66] conducted by Independent Counsel (”
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.