McCormack v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
891 F.2d 24 · 1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2010
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Massachusetts District Court)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7430
Relies on United States v. McPherson · Aronson v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable fees paid or incurred for the services of attorneys in connection with the court proceeding.”
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.