Buster v. Greisen’s Empirical Analysis
104 F.3d 1186 · 1997
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Margolis v. Ryan (1998), Toumajian v. Frailey (1998)
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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
Relies on Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Frivolous” filings are those that are “both baseless and made without a reasonable and competent inquiry.” Townsend v. Holman Consulting Corp., 929 F.2d 1358, 1362 (9th Cir.1990) (en banc). The district court concluded that this suit was barred by the res judicata and collateral estoppel effects of the prior judgment. These findings are supported by the record, and a reasonable and competent inquiry would have led to the same conclusion. This action involves the same parties and the same “transactional nucleus of fact” as the prior suit and it seeks to relitigate issues that were conclusively resolved in the prior suit. See In re Grantham Brothers, 922 F.2d 1438 , 1442 (9th Cir.1991) (collateral attack with no basis in law or fact is frivolous under Rule 11), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 826 , 112 S.Ct. 94 , 116 L.Ed.2d 66 (1991); Roberts v. Chevron, 117 F.R.D. 581 (M.D.La.1987) (bringing state court action attacking prior federal judgment and failing to dismiss after removal justified Rule 11 sanctions; reasonable inquiry would have shown that res judicata barred action), aff 'd, 857 F.2d 1471 (5th Cir.1988). The district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that Buster’s claim was frivolous.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'presenting to the court (whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating)' a document otherwise sanctionable”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“displaces the claim with its civil enforcement provision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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