Theriault v. Silber’s Empirical Analysis
579 F.2d 302 · 1978
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Garrett v. Selby Connor Maddux & Janer (2005), Norman D. Carter and Cecilia P. Carter v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1986)
40 federal appellate · 1 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 Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · United States v. District Court · Parham v. Cortese
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court simply will not allow liberal pleading rules and pro se practice to be a vehicle for abusive documents. Our pro se practice is a shield against the technical requirements of a past age; it is not a sword with which to insult a trial judge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“vile and insulting references to the trial judge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.