Maddox v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2012
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Skendzel v. Marshall · Trotcky v. Van Sickle · 171 Ind. App. 60 - State Ex Rel. Crooke v. Lugar · 159 Ind. App. 324 - Goff v. Graham · Morris v. Weigle
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he parties to an appeal generally must bear their own costs. Trotcky v. Van Sickle (1949), 227 Ind. 441 , 85 N.E.2d 638 . An exception to the rule, however, may be recognized where a party has been dragged into baseless litigation. Kikkert v. Krumm (1985), Ind., 474 N.E.2d 503 . Where a party knowingly files a baseless claim, or fails to dismiss it upon discovering that it is baseless, his behavior may be deemed "obdurate" and the costs of appeal may be awarded the prevailing party. His conduct must be vexatious and oppressive in the extreme and a blatant abuse of the judicial process. Kikkert v. Krumm, supra.”
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.