Martin v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
63 F.3d 1252 · 1995
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 19 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Saldana v. Kmart Corp. (2001), Michael Byrne Debra Manov v. Camran Nezhat (2001)
42 federal appellate · 19 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.
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1341 · 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Catlin v. United States
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]enerally, a court's inherent power should be reserved for those cases in which the conduct of a party or an attorney is egregious and no other basis for sanctions exists.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any attorney or other person admitted to conduct cases in any court of the United States or any territory thereof who so multiplies the proceedings in any case unreasonably and vexatiously may be required by the court to satisfy personally the excess costs, expenses, and attorneys’ fees reasonably incurred because of such conduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“any sanctions imposed against [an attorney] should be based solely on his 'own improper conduct without considering the conduct of the parties or any other attorney'”
3 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.