461 F. Supp. 1104 - Flora v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 1996 · most notably 32 Cal. 3d 668 - Folsom v. Butte County Assn. of Governments (1982), Doe ex rel. Doe v. St. Joseph's Hospital of Fort Wayne (1986)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1692K (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Washington v. Davis · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Harassment; malicious abuse of legal process. “(f) If an action is commenced by the Corporation or by a recipient and a final order is entered in favor of the defendant and against the Corporation or a recipient’s plaintiff, the court shall, upon motion by the defendant and upon a finding by the court that the action was commenced or pursued for the sole purpose of harassment of the defendant or that the Corporation or a recipient’s plaintiff maliciously abused the legal process, enter an order (which shall be appealable before being made final) awarding reasonable costs and legal fees incurred by the defendant in defense of the action, except when in contravention of a State law, a rule of court, or a statute of general applicability. Any such costs and fees shall be directly paid by the Corporation." (Emphasis added.) 42 U.S.C. § 2996e(f).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davison v. State““We are of the opinion that a meritless action which is prosecuted or pursued ‘in bad faith, vexatiously, wantonly, or for oppressive reasons,’ Hall v. Cole, 412 U.S. 1, 5 , 93 S.Ct. 1943, 1946 , 36 L.Ed.2d 702, 707 (1973), is the legal equivalent of ‘an action pursued for the sole purpose of harassment of the defendant,’ within the meaning of 42 U.S.C. § 2996e(f).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,”
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.