Barber v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
146 F.3d 707 · 1998
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 10 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Bkb v. Maui Police Department (2002), Fink v. Gomez (2001)
38 federal appellate · 10 district · 9 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 Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · State v. Simpson · Harker v. United States · Ridder v. City of Springfield
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To stress the seriousness of a motion for sanctions and to define precisely the conduct claimed to violate the rule, the revision provides that the “safe harbor” period begins to run only upon service of the motion. In most cases, however, counsel should be expected to give informal notice to the other party, whether in person or by a telephone call or letter, of a potential violation before proceeding to prepare and serve a Rule 11 motion.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t would therefore wrench both the language and purpose of the amendment to [Rule 11(c)(1)(A)] to permit an informal warning to substitute for service of a motion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cadle Co. v. Pratt · In Re Pratt“a party cannot delay serving its Rule 11 motion until conclusion of the case (or judicial rejection of the offending contention).”
4 later decisions 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.