Frazier v. Cast’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.2d 259 · 1985
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Mars Steel Corp. v. Continental Bank N.A. (1989), Golden Eagle Distributing Corp. v. Burroughs Corp. (1986)
66 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Suslick v. Rothschild Securities Corp.
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Rule contains several strands. There must be “reasonable inquiry” into both fact and law; there must be good faith (that is, the paper may not be interposed “to harass”); the legal theory must be objectively “warranted by existing law or a good faith argument” for the modification of existing law; and the lawyer must believe that the complaint is “well grounded in fact.” The attorney filing the complaint or other paper must satisfy all four requirements.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“important issue completely separate from the merits of the action,” and is”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“has read the pleading, motion, or other paper; that to the best of [her] knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry it is well grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law, and that it is not interposed for any improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation____ If a pleading, motion, or other paper is signed in violation of this rule, the court, upon motion or upon its own initiative, shall impose upon the person who signed it ... an appropriate sanction, which may include an order to pay to the other party or parties the amount of the reasonable expenses incurred because of the filing of the pleading, motion, or other paper, including a reasonable attorney’s fee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.