Nofziger v. 87-1’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably Mova Pharmaceutical Corp. v. Shalala (1998), In Re Oliver L. North (Dutton Fee Application) (1993)
48 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Russell v. United States · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Ball v. United States · United States v. Cruikshank · Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon the request of an individual who is the subject of an investigation conducted by an independent counsel pursuant to this chapter, the division of the court may, if no indictment is brought against such individual pursuant to that investigation, 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.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Pierce · In re Pierce“prejudiced by the Department of Justice's failure to comply with the substantial protective features of the Act.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Mullins · In re Mullins“constitutes a waiver of sovereign immunity it is to be strictly construed.”
16 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.