Carr v. Tillery’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “does not leave victims of unreasonable and vexatious litigation remediless, and should not: a litigant can’t be allowed to file repeated meritless suits with impunity just so long as he does not protract any one of them unreasonably. A court has inherent power ... to punish by an award of reasonable attorneys’ fees ... misconduct by lawyers appearing before it. The limitations of section 1927 do not apply to the exercise of that power.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 87 F. Supp. 3d 817 - Intellect Wireless, Inc. v. Sharp Corp.

2. “Although the suit is not frivolous, or at least not utterly so, it is so lacking in merit ... that its pursuit by the plaintiff indicates a motive to harass.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Matter Of Lisse

3. “needed in order to be able to rule on the defense,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 392 F. Supp. 3d 965 - Eggs v. Rembrandt Enters., Inc.