Cornwall v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
654 F.2d 685 · 1981
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 35 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Emrich v. Touche Ross & Co. (1988), U.S. Industries, Inc. v. Touche Ross & Co. (1988)
25 federal appellate · 35 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
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Hall v. Cole · Tri-cities Newspapers, Inc. v. Tri-Cities Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Local 349
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only in exceptional cases and for dominating reasons of justice.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he exception is not invoked by findings of negligence, frivolity, or improvidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only in circumstances which do not show a reasonable ground for the conclusion that vexatiousness existed.”
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.