State v. Arthur Andersen & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
570 F.2d 1370 · 1978
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 16 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Ocelot Oil Corporation v. Sparrow Industries (1988), United Nuclear Corp. v. General Atomic Co. (1980)
47 federal appellate · 16 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · Hammond Packing Company v. State of Arkansas
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) Award of Expenses of Motion. If the motion is granted, the court shall, after op portunity for hearing, require the party or deponent whose conduct necessitated the motion or the party or attorney advising such conduct or both of them to pay to the moving party the reasonable expenses incurred in obtaining the order, including attorney’s fees, unless the court finds that the opposition to the motion was substantially justified or that other circumstances make an award of expenses unjust. If the motion is denied, the court shall, after opportunity for hearing, require the moving party or the attorney advising the motion or both of them to pay to the party or deponent who opposed the motion the reasonable expenses incurred in opposing the motion, including attorney’s fees, unless the court finds that the making of the motion was substantially justified or that other circumstances make an award of expenses unjust. If the motion is granted in part and denied in part, the court may apportion the reasonable expenses incurred in relation to the motion among the parties and persons in a just manner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to penalize those whose conduct may be deemed to warrant such a sanction, [and] to deter those who might by tempted to such conduct in the absence of such a deterrent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court shall require the party failing to obey the order or the attorney advising him or both to pay the reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees, caused by the failure, unless the court finds that the failure was substantially justified or that other circumstances make an award of expenses unjust.”
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.