Jones v. Lujan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “no authority to speculate over hypothetical scenarios that Congress did and did not ‘have in mind’ in enacting EAJA. Indeed, it is a fanciful notion to even think that we might be able to surmise what Congress ‘had in mind,’ apart from the specific words of the statute. We can only enforce the statute as written....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cook v. Brown · James R. Cook, Claimant-Appellant v. Jesse Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

2. “[A] court shall award to a prevailing party other than the United States fees and other expenses ... incurred by that party in any civil action (other than cases sounding in tort) brought by or against the United States in any court having jurisdiction of that action, unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Lujan

3. “clearly allows for the granting of reasonable attorney fees [for] ... a pro se attorney,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Lujan