Schultz v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.2d 164 · 1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2016
2 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 6672 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Hartman v. United States · Brown v. United States · Taylor v. Sterrett · Devine v. Ra Sutermeister
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“look to the substance of the litigation to determine whether an applicant has substantially prevailed in its position, and not merely the technical disposition of the case or motion. In effect, substance should prevail over form.”
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.