Harris v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2002
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1927 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Blum v. Stenson · Hughes v. Rowe · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Hall v. Cole · Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Finally, although recent circuit authority has raised some question as to whether a litigant has a continuing obligation under Rule 11 to update, correct, or withdraw a once-valid document ... if it later learns there is no reasonable basis for the assertions contained therein ... this court continues to believe the obligation exists. Claims cannot be pressed to trial once it has become clear from discovery that they are baseless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Denny v. Hinton“Rule 11 was violated with each and every filing of the plaintiffs relevant to the Blue and Harris claims from (and including) the Pre-Trial Orders forward (if not considerably before that date).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the disciplinary proceeding is predicated upon the complaint of a judge of this court the hearing shall be conducted before another judge of this court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.