Jones v. Lujan’s Empirical Analysis
887 F.2d 1096 · 1989
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Role Models America, Inc. v. Brownlee (2004), F.J. Vollmer Co. v. Magaw (1996)
17 federal appellate · 8 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 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Pierce v. Underwood · Poythress v. Kessler · Spencer v. National Labor Relations Board · Gilbert A. Cuneo v. Donald H. Rumsfeld · Federal Election Commission v. National Conservative Political Action Committee
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'justified in substance or in the main'--that is, justified to a degree that could satisfy a reasonable person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“under the EAJA. Both parties also agree, as do we, that the district court properly found that this court's previous rejection of the Bureau's interpretation of the Firearms Act does not settle the question we face today: whether the Government's position was substantially justified within the meaning of the EAJA. The inquiry into the reasonableness of the Government's position under the EAJA”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whenever the Government contests an application for fees under EAJA, it must address two issues: first, whether the agency's underlying action that gave rise to the civil litigation is substantially justified; second, whether its position in the civil litigation is substantially justified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Trahan v. Brady
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.