Lau v. Meddaugh’s Empirical Analysis
229 F.3d 121 · 2000
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2021
6 federal appellate ·
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. § 1915
Relies on Schmidt v. Lessard · Russel William Burket v. Ronald Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections · Ohio Hospital Association and American Hospital Association v. Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services · Gunn v. University Committee to End the War in Viet Nam · Martin-Trigona v. Lavien
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he district court, in determining whether or not to restrict a litigant’s future access to the courts, should consider the following factors: (1) the litigant’s history of litigation and in particular whether it entailed vexatious, harassing or duplicative lawsuits; (2) the litigant’s motive in pursuing the litigation, e.g., does the litigant have an objective good faith expectation of prevailing?; (3) whether the litigant is represented by counsel; (4) whether the litigant has caused needless expense to other parties or has posed an unnecessary burden on the courts and their personnel; and (5) whether other sanctions would be adequate to protect the courts and other parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“court's failure to comply with the specific requirements of this rule does not render the injunction void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fairness requires that the litigants receive explicit notice of precisely what conduct is”
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.