Escobar v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
857 F.2d 644 · 1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2017
4 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Pierce v. Underwood · Hanrahan v. Hampton · Oregon Environmental Council v. Kunzman · Escobar Ruiz v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven a significant procedural victory which implicates substantive rights is not sufficient to make a party a prevailing party under EAJA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sims v. Apfel
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.