Monk v. Roadway Express, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.2d 1378 · 1979
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper (1980), Hill v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1987)
18 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co. · Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · United States v. National Association of Real Estate Boards
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“who so multiplies the proceedings . . . as to increase costs unreasonably and vexatiously . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 1927 should be strictly construed because it is penal in nature”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 1927 provides only for excess costs caused by the plaintiffs' attorneys' vexatious behavior and consequent multiplication of the proceedings, and not for the total costs of the litigation.”
2 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.