In Re Edwin Meese III’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably In Re Oliver L. North (Dutton Fee Application) (1993), In Re Oliver L. North (Bush Fee Application) (1995)
27 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 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
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Missouri v. Jenkins Ex Rel. Agyei
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“makes it impossible for the court to verify the reasonableness of the billings, either as to the necessity of the particular service or the amount of time expended on a given legal task.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he division of the court may ... award reimbursement for those reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred by that individual during that investigation which would not have been incurred but for the requirements of this chapter.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a `more rigorous application of the criminal law than is applied to other citizens.'”
3 later decisions 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.