Gates v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 federal appellate ·

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““I would think that no one would disagree with the proposition that recitation of the defendants’ obstinate and unreasonable conduct in forcing the commencement of the suit in the first place, and in the manner in which they forced the plaintiffs to ‘spend time and expenses which otherwise would not have been incurred. . . . ’, as a result of which, ‘plaintiff’s attorney engaged in extensive pretrial discovery, made numerous trips to Parch-man, interviewed hundreds of inmates, and submitted a plethora of motions and accompanying legal memoranda’, met the standard of Alyeska of bad faith, vexatious, wanton, or oppressive conduct. The trial court’s recitation both semantically and literally fits the exception saved to the district courts in Alyeska.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Gates v. Collier