Blattner v. Forster’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably In Re Hennepin County 1986 Recycling Bond Litigation (1995), Becker v. Alloy Hardfacing & Engineering Co. (1987)
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 61 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 Cherne Industrial, Inc. v. Grounds & Associates, Inc. · Republic National Life Insurance Co. v. Lorraine Realty Corp. · Fownes v. Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court in its discretion may award to that party costs, disbursements, reasonable attorney fees * * * if the [opposing] party * * * acted in bad faith; asserted a claim or defense that is frivolous and that is costly to the other party; asserted an unfounded position solely to delay the ordinary course of the proceedings or to harass; or committed a fraud upon the court.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the language used is reasonably susceptible of more than one meaning.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he court in its discretion may award * * * costs, disbursements, reasonable attorney fees and witness fees if the party or attorney against whom * * * fees are charged acted in bad faith; asserted a claim or defense knowing it to be frivolous; asserted an unfounded position solely to delay the ordinary course of the proceedings or to harass; or committed a fraud upon the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.