Lion Uniform Inc Janesville Apparel Division v. National Labor Relations Board’s Empirical Analysis
905 F.2d 120 · 1990
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2010
7 federal appellate ·
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 · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 504 (Equal Access to Justice Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 557 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Pierce v. Underwood · Leeward Auto Wreckers, Inc. v. National Labor Relations 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court shall award to a prevailing party other than the United States fees and other expenses ..., unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“justified to a degree that could satisfy a reasonable person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While the decision on an application for fees is initially made by the adjudicative officer, the final administrative decision is that of the agency.”
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.