McLaughlin v. Bradlee’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Hall v. Cole · Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Jackson v. Salon · Rodgers v. Lincoln Towing Service, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is especially appropriate to impose sanctions in situations where the doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel plainly preclude relitigation of the suit”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The signature of an attorney or party [on a pleading, motion or paper] constitutes a certificate by him that he has read the pleading, motion, or paper, that to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry it is well-grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law, and that it is not interposed for any improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation____ If a pleading, motion, or other paper is signed in violation of this rule, the court ... shall impose upon the person who signed it ... an appropriate sanction ... (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“convinced the court that McLaughlin brought this entire lawsuit, with its attendant frivolous motions, in bad faith.”
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.