Payne v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
977 F.2d 900 · 1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2017
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
Relies on Pierce v. Underwood · Conway v. Statesman Mortgage Co. · Action on Smoking & Health v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Baker v. Bowen · Coup v. Heckler
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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Consideration of cost-of-living increases is not an individualized analysis to be made on a case-by-case basis, but should be based on factors affecting all proceedings of a similar nature; uniformity of decisions within a particular locale is important to avoid a multiplicity of conflicting views ... and the resulting confusion and bewilderment among the bar and litigants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.