Bower v. Weisman’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2013
1 district · 3 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 Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin · 24 Cal. 3d 809 - Egan v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance · Northern Utilities, Inc. v. Public Service Commission · Eash v. Riggins Trucking Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the exercise of its inherent powers, a court may tax costs and attorneys fees against a party for bad faith actions taken in the conduct of litigation, even if the litigation itself is not in bad faith”); see also Lipsig v. National Student Marketing Corp., 663 F.2d 178, 182 (D.C.Cir.1980) (finding as one basis for awarding attorneys’ fees that party had at least twice”
1 later decision 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.