Nathaniel B. Wright, III v. Delbert C. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.2d 955 · 1975
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Tci Limited William Needler Associates Ltd 1081800, Kelly Inn No. 102, Inc. v. Kapnison (1992)
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · F. D. Rich Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Industrial Lumber Co. · Gerstle v. Gamble-Skogmo, Inc. · United States v. Ash
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“insofar as a court's measure of a party's obstinacy depends on the merits of the case, it must make that assessment while the merits are before it, either prior to an appeal, or on remand after they have been settled.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we do not agree ... that a party who offers a legitimate defense cannot have been obstinate in the process.... (I)ndeed, even a winner may have to pay obstinacy fees.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an award for general obstinacy unconnected with the merits of the case.”
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.