Smith v. Ricks’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 1478 · 1994
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Mathews v. Lancaster General Hospital (1996), Security Farms (1997)
37 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 11101 (Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986) · 42 U.S.C. § 11112 · 42 U.S.C. § 11113 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants · Bauer v. Waldschmidt · ASARCO Inc. v. Kadish
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appeal is frivolous if the result is obvious or the arguments of error are wholly without merit.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Counsel can no longer avoid the sting of Rule 11 sanctions by operating under the guise of a pure heart and empty head.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has a colorable basis in law, and is not filed for an improper purpose. Fed.R.Civ.P. 11; Smith v. Ricks, 31 F.3d 1478 , 1488 (9th Cir.1994). Counsel, of course, may not avoid”
2 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.