Reichenberger v. Pritchard’s Empirical Analysis
660 F.2d 280 · 1981
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Reed Rbk v. Village of Shorewood (1983), Munson v. Friske (1985)
66 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Baker v. McCollan · Carey v. Piphus · Griffin v. Breckenridge
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n seeking to determine whether a suit is frivolous, unreasonable or groundless, courts have focused on several factors. Among those considered are whether the issue is one of first impression requiring judicial resolution, Christiansburg, 434 U.S. at 423-24 , 98 S.Ct. at 701 ; whether the controversy is sufficiently based upon a real threat of injury to the plaintiff, Olitsky, 597 F.2d at 305; whether the trial court has made a finding that the suit was frivolous under the Christiansburg guidelines, and whether the record would support such a finding, see, e.g., Vorbeck v. Whaley, 620 F.2d 191, 193 (8th Cir.1980).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. .. that it was obvious at the outset of this case that the plaintiffs had not suffered injury or deprivation of a constitutional magnitude.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
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.