Sorenson v. Mink

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Claims are ‘unrelated’ if they are entirely ‘distinct and separate’ from the claims on which the plaintiff prevailed.”
• “Hours expended on unrelated, unsuccessful claims should not be included in an award of fees.”
• “[U]nstated assumptions on non-litigated issues are not precedential holdings binding future decisions.” (citation omitted)
• EAJA fee application included legal assistant fees; no discussion of the issue
• “On March 29, 1996, the statute was amended to increase the maximum fee to $125 per 24 hour, plus any ‘cost of living’ and ‘special factor’ adjustments. The $125 per hour cap applies to 25 cases commenced on or after March 29, 1996.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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  Ninth Circuit· 2008-07-24· cited 3,454×
• Nadarajah v. Holder
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-06-09· cited 260×
• Lytle v. Carl
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-09-01· cited 246×
• Victoria Ryan v. Editions Limited West, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-05-19· cited 106×
• Webb v. Sloan
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-05-29· cited 105×
• United States v. Steven B. Aisenberg
  Eleventh Circuit· 2004-02-06· cited 86×
• Kathy Carson v. Billings Police Department David Ward Larry Reinlasoder Seth Weston Mike Scheino
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-12-07· cited 80×
• Watson v. County of Riverside
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-08-20· cited 71×
• Childress v. Darby Lumber, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-02-06· cited 33×
• Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Winter
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-09-16· cited 30×
• Demontiney v. United States ex rel. Department of Interior
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-07-16· cited 25×
• Knudsen v. Barnhart
  N.D. Iowa· 2004-12-23· cited 24×
• Hartless v. Clorox Co.
  S.D. California· 2011-01-20· cited 18×
• Jorgenson v. State Line Hotel, Inc. (In Re State Line Hotel, Inc.)
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-03-29· cited 17×
• Rosenfeld v. United States Department of Justice
  N.D. California· 2012-10-17· cited 11×
• United States v. $60,201.00 U.S. Currency
  C.D. California· 2003-10-27· cited 10×
• Sierra Club v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
  N.D. California· 2014-12-08· cited 10×
• Condit v. National Enquirer, Inc.
  E.D. California· 2002-07-10· cited 9×
• Bain v. Astrue
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-03-12· cited 9×
• Roark v. Barnhart
  W.D. Missouri· 2002-08-27· cited 7×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hensley v. Eckerhart
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-16· cited 17,202×
• Blum v. Stenson
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-21· cited 7,642×
• Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-04· cited 1,875×
• Library of Congress v. Shaw
  Supreme Court· 1986-07-01· cited 871×
• Ardestani v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  Supreme Court· 1991-12-10· cited 656×
• Rufus E. Cunningham v. County of Los Angeles, and Richard Eiden, Real-Party-In-Interest-Appellant
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-06-20· cited 289×
• Hong-Yee Chiu v. The United States
  Federal Circuit· 1991-10-29· cited 201×
• Richard S. RUSSELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-04-24· cited 194×
• Sorenson v. Mink
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-02-13· cited 176×
• Esther Marcus v. Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-05-24· cited 173×
• Robert McGRATH, Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. COUNTY OF NEVADA; And Bill Heafey, Sheriff, Defendants-Appellants
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-10-03· cited 137×
• Masonry Masters, Inc. And Rigoberto Perdomo v. Alan C. Nelson and Janet Reno, Attorney General
  D.C. Circuit· 1997-04-25· cited 136×
• Atkins v. Apfel
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-08-31· cited 136×
• William J. Kerin, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee v. United States Postal Service, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 2000-05-31· cited 130×
• Gates v. Deukmejian
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-03-02· cited 125×
• Zulema De La Garza Perales, Cross-Appellants v. Richard Casillas, Cross-Appellees
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-01-07· cited 122×
• Yosh Sakamoto v. Duty Free Shoppers, Ltd.
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-07-01· cited 114×
• Peter Odima v. Westin Tucson Hotel, a Delaware Corporation, AKA Westin Hotels
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-04-28· cited 109×
• Jose Ramon-Sepulveda v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-12-20· cited 85×
• Estate of Cyril I. Magnin, Deceased Donald Isaac Magnin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-07-13· cited 36×