Mark Industries, Ltd. v. Sea Captain's Choice, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.3d 730 · 1995
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Corley v. Rosewood Care Center, Inc. (1998), Barber v. Miller (1998)
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · State v. Simpson · Wrenn v. McFadden
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court ordinarily should rely on the Rules rather than the inherent power . . . [b]ut if in the informed discretion of the court, neither the statute nor the Rules are up to the task, the court may safely rely on its inherent power[s],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the amount of an inherent powers sanction is meant to do something very different than provide a substantive remedy to an aggrieved party . . . [but instead] . . .`vindicat[e] judicial authority'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review the district court's imposition of sanctions pursuant to its inherent powers for abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ashker v. Rowland
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.