Zaldivar v. City of Los Angeles’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 823 · 1986
Citation profile
260 federal appellate · 35 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 578 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. (1990), Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. (1991)
260 federal appellate · 35 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 15 U.S.C. § 77K (§ 11 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78I (§ 9 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 42 U.S.C. § 1971 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973A (§ 3 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973B (§ 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · Allen v. State Board of Elections · Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York · Bowsher v. SmithKline 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 578 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a certification is made in violation of the rule, the court, upon motion or upon its own initiative, shall impose upon the person who made the certification ... an appropriate sanction, which may include an order to pay the amount of the reasonable expenses incurred because of the violation, including a reasonable attorney's fee”
89 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“frivolous, legally unreasonable, or without factual foundation.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for his or her view of what the law is, or should be. A good faith belief in the merit of a legal argument is an objective condition which a competent attorney attains only after”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Helton v. United States R · Norman Ring, Norma Ring, Fred Ashkenasy, Marian Ashkenasy and Elizabeth Regan v. Jim Hankoff & Associates, Inc. And Stuart Newmeyer, and Thomas F. White & Co., Inc., Thomas F. White and Paul Meiners, Jerome Edward Tarver and Dean Browning Webb, Real Parties in Interest/appellants. Norman Ring, Norma Ring, Fred Ashkenasy, Marian Ashkenasy and Elizabeth Regan v. Jim Hankoff & Associates, Inc., Stuart Newmeyer, Thomas F. White & Co., Inc., Thomas F. White and Paul Meiners, Jerome Edward Tarver and Dean Browning Webb, Real Parties in Interest/appellants
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.