Gray v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2016
12 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 29 U.S.C. § 794
Relies on Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Latimer v. Stainer · Oliveri v. Thompson · Szabo Food Service, Inc. v. Canteen Corp.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every pleading, motion, and other paper of a party represented by an attorney shall be signed by at least 1 attorney of record in the attorney’s individual name,.... The signature of an attorney or party constitutes a certificate by the signer that the signer has read the pleading, motion or other paper; that to the best of the signer's knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry it is well grounded in fact ..., 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, upon motion or upon its own initiative, shall impose upon the person who signed it, a represented party, or both, an appropriate sanction, which may include an order to pay the other party or parties the amount of the reasonable expenses incurred because of the filing of the pleading, including a reasonable attorney's fee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kleiman v. Kleiman“The signature of an attorney or party constitutes a certificate by the signer that the signer has read the pleading, motion or other paper; that to the best of the signer’s 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 ra-to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Rule 11 sanctions are not to be imposed simply because the allegations in the challenged pleading are found wanting. A signer’s failure to make a reasonable factual inquiry must be a flagrant one before sanctions are warranted_ Rule 11 is violated only when it is patently clear that a claim has absolutely no chance of success.”
1 later decision 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.