Alpern v. Lieb’s Empirical Analysis
38 F.3d 933 · 1994
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Homola v. McNamara (1995), Retired Chicago Police Ass'n v. City of Chicago (1996)
22 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 2283 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Stump v. Sparkman · Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough an award under Rule 11 is conceptually different from a decision on the merits, it requires one party to pay money to another; the denial of a request for sanctions has an effect similar to the denial of a request for damages. The power to award sanctions, like the power to award damages, belongs in the hands of the district judge.”
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.