United States v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.2d 346 · 1976
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper (1980), Braley v. Campbell (1987)
47 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 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 In Re Peterson · Yi Au Lau v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · General Electric Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers · West Virginia v. Chas. Pfizer & Co. · Henkel v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Ry. Co.
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intentional departure from proper conduct, or, at a minimum, ... a reckless disregard of the duty owed by counsel to the court”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any attorney or other person admitted to conduct cases in any court of the United States or any Territory thereof who so multiplies the proceedings in any case unreasonably and vexatiously may be required by the court to satisfy personally the excess costs, expenses, and attorneys’ fees reasonably incurred because of such conduct.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a serious and studied disregard for the orderly process of justice.”
3 later decisions 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.