Klein v. Stahl GMBH & Co. Maschinefabrik’s Empirical Analysis
185 F.3d 98 · 1999
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Montrose Medical Group Participating Savings Plan v. Bulger (2001), First Bank of Marietta v. Hartford Underwriters Insurance (2002)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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. · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · Cleveland v. Policy Management Systems Corp. · McKinney v. Baldwin · Poulis v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the Rules are not `up to the task' when they would not provide a district court with the authority to sanction all of the conduct deserving of sanction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“if in the informed discretion of the court”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]ny attorney... who so multiplies the proceedings in any case unreasonably and vexatiously may be required... to satisfy personally the excess costs, expenses and attorneys' fees reasonably incurred because of such conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.