Thomas v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 332 · 1988
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Kali v. Bowen (1988), Flores v. Shalala (1995)
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
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 16 U.S.C. § 1536 (§ 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 1540 (§ 11 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 26 U.S.C. § 501 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412
Relies on Thomas v. Peterson · Oregon Environmental Council v. Kunzman · George L. Barry v. Otis R. Bowen · Hill v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · League of Women Voters of California v. Federal Communications Commission
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make the award unjust.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“based its decision on an erroneous legal conclusion or a clearly erroneous finding of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alvarez v. McNary“novel but credible extension or interpretation of the law”
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.