Reliance Insurance v. Sweeney Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 1137 · 1986
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Braley v. Campbell (1987), McLaughlin v. Bradlee (1986)
18 federal appellate · 10 district ·
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. § 1912 · 28 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on Tci Limited William Needler Associates Ltd 1081800 · McConnell v. Critchlow · Johnson v. Allyn & Bacon, Inc. · United States v. Potamkin Cadillac Corp. · In re TCI Ltd.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reckless indifference to the merits of a claim”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unreasonably and vexatiously may be required by the court to satisfy personally the excess costs, expenses, and attorney's fees reasonably incurred because of such conduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An appeal is considered frivolous when its disposition is obvious and the legal arguments are wholly without merit”
3 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.