Barnes v. Dalton’s Empirical Analysis
158 F.3d 1212 · 1998
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Michael Byrne Debra Manov v. Camran Nezhat (2001), Cordoba v. Dillard's, Inc. (2005)
22 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
Relies on Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · State v. Simpson · Mroz Glatter Pa v. Mroz · Primus Automotive Financial Services, Inc. v. Batarse
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The key to unlocking a court's inherent power is a finding of bad faith.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If particularly egregious, the pursuit of a claim without reasonable inquiry into the underlying facts can be the basis for a finding of bad faith”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Engle Cases“[b]ecause of their very potency, inherent powers must be exercised with restraint and discretion.”
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.