Evans v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.2d 109 · 1991
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2013
7 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Pierce v. Underwood · Guthrie v. Schweiker · Smith v. Schweiker
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a war with life's realities to reason that the position of every loser in a lawsuit upon final conclusion was unjustified”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an instrument for curbing ... the unreasonable exercise of governmental authority.”
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.