Cotner v. Hopkins’s Empirical Analysis
795 F.2d 900 · 1986
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Thomas v. Capital Security Services, Inc. (1988), Turner v. Duke University (1989)
70 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Bounds v. Smith · United States v. James Griggs Raines · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Elliott v. Perez
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is strong precedent establishing the inherent power of federal courts to regulate the activities of abusive litigants by imposing carefully tailored restrictions under the appropriate circumstances.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Burnley · Peoples v. State“as long as they are designed to assist the district court in curbing the particular abusive behavior involved.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nder the Rule, the party or attorney, in signing a pleading, affirms that, after making a reasonable inquiry, he believes in good faith that the pleading is well grounded both in fact and in law.... The district court's imposition of a sanction under Rule 11 is subject to review for abuse of discretion ...,”
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.