Morse v. Packer’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2020
13 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 Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · O'Brien v. Alexander · Griffith v. Griffith · 30 Utah 2d 423 - Jensen v. Eames · Barnard v. Sutliff
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) findings of fact are reviewed under the clearly erroneous standard; (2) legal conclusions are reviewed under the correction of error standard; and (8) the type and amount of sanctions to be imposed [are] reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“allegations and other factual contentions [that] have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, are likely to have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Representation to court. By presenting a pleading, written motion, or other paper to the court ... an attorney ... is certifying that to the best of the person’s knowledge, information, and belief, formed after any inquiry reasonable under ■ the circumstances, [[Image here]] ... the claims, defenses, and other legal contentions therein are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law or the establishment of new law....”
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.