Headlee v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
869 F.2d 548 · 1989
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Starrett v. Wadley (1989), Chiu v. United States (1991)
13 federal appellate · 7 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Pierce v. Underwood · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Hirschey v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission · Sierra Club v. Secretary of the Army
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... attorney’s fees shall not be awarded in excess of $75 per hour unless the court determines that an increase in the cost of living or a special factor, such as the limited availability of qualified attorneys for the proceedings involved justifies a higher fee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burgess v. Sullivan“the district court may, upon proper proof, increase the $75 per hour rate for attorney's fees to reflect the increase in the cost of living,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McNulty v. Sullivan
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.