Obert v. Republic Western Insurance’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “By presenting to the court a pleading, written motion, or other paper ... an attorney ... certifies that to the best of [her] knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances ... [that] the claims, defenses, and other legal contentions are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing law or for establishing new law....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McCarty v. Verizon New England, Inc.

2. “Counsel every day file motions that are hopeless, just as théy make hopeless objections in trials and hopeless arguments to the judge. Perhaps a court could sanction counsel under Rule 11 for many such hopeless motions, but doing so routinely would tie courts and counsel & knots.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eldridge v. Gordon Bros. Group, LLC

3. “had [the court] invoked Rule 11 and required a small payment to plaintiffs counsel for having to write a response, this might well have passed muster under an abuse of discretion standard”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reinhardt Jd Eiu v. Gulf Insurance Company