Crawford v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 655 · 1991
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably 17814a Cutlip v. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1994), Roanoke River Basin Ass'n v. Hudson (1993)
14 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Pierce v. Underwood · Carnegie v. United States · Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean · Berry Estates, Inc. v. Regan · Guthrie 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and that the government's position was not”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any given civil action can have numerous phases. While the parties’ postures on individual matters may be more or less justified, the EAJA — like other fee-shifting statutes — favors treating a case as an inclusive whole, rather than as atomized line-items.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he government has the burden of proving that its litigation position was substantially justified.”
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.