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8 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 185 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Astrue v. Ratliff.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astrue v. Ratliff Anchor | green | “subject to a government offset to satisfy a pre-existing debt that the litigant owes the united states.” | 44 |
| 2 | Melkonyan v. Sullivan | green | “in sentence four remand cases, the filing period begins after the final judgment ("affirming, modifying, or reversing” | 35 |
| 3 | Bostic v. Commissioner of Social Security | green | “to the discretion of the government to accept plaintiff's assignment of eaja fees and pay fees directly to plaintiff's counsel after a determination that plaintiff does not owe a federal debt.” | 32 |
| 4 | Stanfield v. Apfel | green | “it is well-settled that in order to be a prevailing party for eaja purposes, plaintiff must have received some, but not necessarily all, of the benefits originally sought in his action.” | 32 |
| 5 | Albert Stratton v. Otis R. Bowen, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States | green | “the government bears the burden of showing that its position was substantially justified.” | 14 |
| 6 | Bostic v. Commissioner of Social Security | green | “award the eaja fees directly to plaintiff as the prevailing party and remain silent regarding the direction of payment of those fees.” | 13 |
| 7 | Jackson v. Commissioner of Social Security | green | “under the eaja, a party that prevails against the united states in court may be awarded fees . . . if the government's position in the litigation was not 'substantially justified.” | 10 |
| 8 | Mary KOSS, Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Appellee | green | “a disability benefits claimant is a prevailing party if the claimant ultimately obtains the benefits sought on appeal to the district court.” | 5 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.