Green v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 204 · 1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2015
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Pierce v. Underwood · Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School District · Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison · Mabry v. Johnson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`succeed[ed] on any significant issue in litigation which achieve[d] some of the benefit the parties sought in bringing suit'”
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.