In Re Raymond J Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 27 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Covington, Olson v. 86-1
49 federal appellate · 27 district · 2 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
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · United States v. Kubrick · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Lehman v. Nakshian
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon the request of ah individual who is the subject of an investigation conducted by an independent counsel pursuant to this chapter, the division of the court may, if no indictment is brought against such individual pursuant to that investigation, award reimbursement for those reasonable attor-. neys’ fees incurred by that individual during that investigation which would not have been incurred but for the requirements of this chapter.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Sealed Case · In re Meese“reasonably related to a defense to such investigation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The change S. 2059 [the 1982 amendments] makes in the standards which trigger a preliminary investigation and an appointment of a special prosecutor are designed to ensure that covered officials will not be subjected to a more rigorous application of the criminal law than is applied to other citizens.”
5 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.