Ratliff v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.3d 225 · 2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2020
2 federal appellate ·
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. § 1447 · 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Willy v. Coastal Corp. · Thomas v. Capital Security Services, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Improper purpose’ does not necessarily refer to bad faith or intent to harass. Vexation implies something broader than that. To ‘vex’ is defined, among others things, as ‘to bring trouble or distress to,’ ‘to subject to mental suffering,’ or ‘to irritate or annoy,’ as well as ‘to tease or torment.’ Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language 2548 (1981). Consistent with this, in Calhoun we did not hold that the only way to establish an ‘improper purpose’ is by showing bad faith. Indeed, any ‘reckless disregard of the duty owed to the court’ can suffice. Edwards v. Gen. Motors Corp., 153 F.3d 242, 246 (5th Cir.1998).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.