Brown v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
916 F.2d 492 · 1990
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Cummings v. Sullivan (1991), American Hospital Ass'n v. Sullivan (1991)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Pierce v. Underwood · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · F. D. Rich Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Industrial Lumber Co. · Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean · Alder v. United States
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court may award reasonable fees and expenses of attorneys ... to the prevailing party in any civil action brought by or against the United States or any agency or any official of the United States acting in his or her official capacity in any court having jurisdiction of such action. The United States shall be liable for such fees and expenses to the same extent that any other party would be liable under the common law....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appeals Council’s failure to review a tape of an ALJ’s hearing ... and other acts that caused delay and necessitated the filing and hearing of additional motions, viz., the Secretary’s delay in producing documents and in transcribing the tape.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“finds that the fees incurred during various phases of litigation are in some way traceable to the [defendant's] bad faith.”
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.