Tci Limited William Needler Associates Ltd 1081800’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 228 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Thomas v. Capital Security Services, Inc. (1988), Mars Steel Corp. v. Continental Bank N.A. (1989)
69 federal appellate · 9 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Butner v. United States · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · Parker v. Levy
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 228 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a lawyer pursues a path that a reasonably careful attorney would have known, after appropriate inquiry, to be unsound, the conduct is objectively unreasonable and vexatious.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When an attorney recklessly creates needless costs the other side is entitled to relief. Rule 11 was amended in 1983 to make it easier for a court to award fees, indeed perhaps to make the award mandatory in some cases. We have warned the bar of the risks. Lawyers who litigate carelessly now must take the consequences.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“multiplies the proceedings ... unreasonably and vexatiously”
4 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.