Knipe v. Skinner’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 72 · 1994
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably MacDraw, Inc. v. CIT Group Equipment Financing, Inc. (1996), Land v. Chicago Truck Drivers Helpers and Warehouse Workers Union Health and Welfare Fund (1994)
13 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Associated Grocers, Inc. v. Washington · Halas v. Department of Energy
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) Sanctions. If, after a reasonable opportunity to respond, the court determines that subdivision (b) has been violated, the court may ... impose an appropriate sanction upon the attorneys, law firms, or parties that have violated subdivision (b) or are responsible for the violation.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all proceedings in civil cases thereafter commenced and, insofar as just and practicable, all proceedings in civil cases then pending.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, under the amended version, the imposition of sanctions for a Rule 11 violation is discretionary rather than mandatory.”
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.