Coll v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Amfac, Inc. v. Waikiki Beachcomber Investment Co. (1992), AIG Hawaii Insurance v. Estate of Caraang (1993)
1 district · 84 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 Berry v. Chaplin · Fujioka Ex Rel. Fujioka v. Kam · In Re the Tax Appeal of Hawaiian Telephone Co. · Schulz v. Honsador, Inc. · Kahn v. Cundiff
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] civil action . . . where a party seeks money damages or injunctive relief, or both, against another party . . . upon a specific finding that all or a portion of the party's claim or defense was frivolous . . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A frivolous claim has been defined as `a claim so manifestly and palpably without merit, so as to indicate bad faith on the pleader's part such that argument to the court was not required.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 607-14.5 Attorneys’ fees and costs in civil actions. (b) ... In determining whether claims or defenses are frivolous, the court may consider whether the party alleging that the claims or defenses are frivolous had submitted to the party asserting the claims or defenses a request for their withdrawal as provided in subsection (c). If the court determines that only a portion of the claims or defenses made by the party are frivolous, the court shall determine a reasonable sum for attorneys’ fees and costs in relation to the frivolous claims or defenses. (c) A party alleging that claims or defenses are frivolous may submit to the party asserting the claims or defenses a request for withdrawal of the frivolous claims or defenses, in writing, identifying those claims or defenses and the reasons they are believed to be frivolous. If the party withdraws the frivolous claims or defenses within a reasonable length of time, the court shall not award attorneys’ fees and costs based on those claims or defenses under this section.”
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.