Avery v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Symmons v. O'Keeffe (1995), Millennium Equity Holdings, LLC v. Mahlowitz (2010)
74 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 Kourouvacilis v. General Motors Corp. · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Finch v. Hughes Aircraft Co. · Mission Denver Co. v. Pierson · Opinions of the Justices
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]npersuasive arguments do not necessarily render an appeal frivolous.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“If [an] appellate court shall determine that an appeal [in a civil case] is frivolous, it may award just damages and single or double costs to the appellee, and such interest on the amount of the judgment as may be allowed by law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appeal is frivolous '[w]hen the law is well settled, [and] when there can be no reasonable expectation of a reversal ....'”
2 later decisions 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.