May v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 176 · 1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2011
1 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 Pierce v. Underwood · Baker v. Bowen · Animal Lovers Volunteer Ass'n v. Carlucci · Phillips v. Sullivan
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress is quite capable of requiring mandatory fee increases to account for changes in the Consumer Price Index and ... this it has not done. Section 2412(d)(2)(A) leaves the decision of whether to award fees in excess of the statutory cap in the sound discretion of the district judge, and we are of opinion that the refusal to grant an upward adjustment, when presented with nothing except an increase in the Consumer Price Index, does not constitute an abuse of that discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Congress is quite capable of requiring mandatory fee increases to account for changes in the Consumer Price Index and, as [EAJA section 2412(d)(2)(A) ] shows, this it has not done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Payne v. Sullivan
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.