McConnell v. Critchlow’s Empirical Analysis
661 F.2d 116 · 1981
Citation profile
132 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Tw Electrical Service Inc Nn v. Pacific Electrical Contractors Association (1987), International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsman Local Union No. 20 v. Martin Jaska, Inc. (1985)
132 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Edelman v. Jordan · Quern v. Jordan · Libby, McNeill, & Libby v. City National Bank
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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appeal is considered frivolous in this circuit when the result is obvious or the appellant's arguments are wholly without merit.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the result is obvious or the appellant's arguments of error are wholly without merit.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his court has discretion to award damages and single or double costs as a sanction against bringing a frivolous appeal,”
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.