Bode v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 1044 · 1990
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Huffman v. Commissioner (1992), Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter v. Cedar Point Oil Co. (1996)
26 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7430 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Pierce v. Underwood · Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Clearly, counsel's expertise in tax law, in and of itself, is not a special factor warranting a fee award in excess of $75 per hour under section 7430.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the limited availability of qualified attorneys for such proceeding”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]pecial legal expertise about the quarterhorse industry may well have qualified as a special factor,”
2 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.