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890 F.2d 451 · 1989

Citation profile

156
cited by 156 later decisions
May 2015
most recently cited

88 federal appellate · 3 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Role Models America, Inc. v. Brownlee (2004), In Re Oliver L. North (Dutton Fee Application) (1993)

88 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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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 26 U.S.C. § 7203 · 28 U.S.C. § 591 · 28 U.S.C. § 592 · 28 U.S.C. § 593

Relies on Missouri v. Jenkins Ex Rel. Agyei · Olson v. 86-1 · In Re Raymond J Donovan · In re Olson

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

  1. “[t]he most difficult element for a fee applicant to establish under the Act is that the fees `would not have been incurred but for the requirements of [the Act].'”
    45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In re North · In re Segal
  2. “[a]ll requests for attorneys' fees under the Act must satisfy the 'but for' requirement of”
    32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In re Espy · In re: Babbitt v. (Thornberry Fee Application)
  3. “officials [and here derivative 'subjects'] who are investigated by independent counsels will be subject only to paying those attorneys' fees that would normally be paid by private citizens being investigated for the same offense by”
    18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In Re Samuel R. PIERCE, Jr. (Kisner Fee Application) · In re: Eli J. Segal

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.