Robison v. McLeod & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Winn v. Aleda Const. Co., Inc. · Commercial Business Systems, Inc. v. BellSouth Services, Inc. · Horton v. Horton · Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Melendez
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“impugns the attorney’s professional integrity. It thus should be made only after the most sober consideration. Those who make such a request should, I suggest, satisfy themselves that they have a solid good-faith objectively reasonable belief that the opponent’s claim is groundless, unreasonable, or frivolous. ... No harm was done here, but I fear that the invocation of [sanctions] has slipped into the “routine” prayers for relief of too many good lawyers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawrence v. Barnett
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.