Sandoval v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2015
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 · 38 U.S.C. § 103
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Pierce v. Underwood · Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean · Herrmann v. United States · Action on Smoking & Health v. Civil Aeronautics Board
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Though the EAJA mentions only attorney fees, courts have ruled that work done by attorney-supervised paralegals and law students falls under the EAJA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Principi
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.