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Hicks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
6
states following
August 2018
most recently cited

3 district · 8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Kunstler Nakell Pitts Robeson Defense Committee, Hutchinson

3 district · 8 state decisions

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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 White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Overnite Transportation Co. v. Chicago Industrial Tire Co. · Gordon v. Heimann · Hicks v. Southern Maryland Health Systems Agency · Watkins v. McMillan

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he only time limitation ... [in filing Rule 11] arises out of ... equitable considerations.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Forcucci v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Pee Dee Health Care, P.A. v. Estate of Thompson
  2. “[h]owever an independent and collateral issue, such as a fee award, is handled, there is some risk of squandered judicial effort.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Mary Ann Pensiero, Inc. v. Lingle · Pee Dee Health Care, P.A. v. Estate of Thompson
  3. “Although in some instances a frivolous case will be quickly revealed as such, it may sometimes be necessary for defendants to 'blow away the smoke screens the plaintiffs ha[ve] thrown up' before the defendants may prevail.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. John Hutchinson William Reese Leonard Underwood v. David Michael Staton, and Margaret D. Miller, Individually and as Clerk of the County Commission of Kanawha County, West Virginia Steven L. Miller James E. Roark, Individually and as Prosecuting Attorney of Kanawha County, West Virginia John A. Cavacini, Jr. Henry C. Shores, as Commissioner of Kanawha County, West Virginia Robert F. Silverstein, as Commissioner of Kanawha County, West Virginia Computer Election Systems, a Foreign Corporation Bernard H. Meadows Clayton Spangler Irvine Keith Long Carl Clough Cherrie Lloyd William E. Biebel Darlene Dotson Carolyn Critchfield, Individually and as Voter Registrar of Kanawha County, West Virginia Ann Carroll, Individually and as Chief Deputy of the County Commission of Kanawha County, West Virginia, John Hutchinson William Reese Leonard Underwood v. James E. Roark, Individually and as Prosecuting Attorney of Kanawha County, West Virginia, and Margaret D. Miller, Individually and as Clerk of the County Commission of Kanawha County, West Virginia David Michael Staton Steven L. Miller John A. Cavacini, Jr. Henry C. Shores, as Commissioner of Kanawha County, West Virginia Robert F. Silverstein, as Commissioner of Kanawha County, West Virginia Computer Election Systems, Incorporated, a Foreign Corporation Bernard H. Meadows Clayton Spangler Irvine Keith Long Carl Clough Cherrie Lloyd William E. Biebel Darlene Dotson Carolyn Critchfield, Individually and as Voter Registrar of Kanawha County, West Virginia Ann Carroll, Individually and as Chief Deputy of the County Commission of Kanawha County, West Virginia, John Hutchinson William Reese Leonard Underwood v. Computer Election Systems, a Foreign Corporation Irvine Keith Long Carl Clough William E. Biebel, and Margaret D. Miller, Individually and as Clerk of the County Commission of Kanawha County, West Virginia David Michael Staton Steven L. Miller James E. Roark, Individually and as Prosecuting Attorney of Kanawha County, West Virginia John A. Cavacini, Jr. Henry C. Shores, as Commissioner Ofkanawha County, West Virginia Robert F. Silverstein, as Commissioner of Kanawha County, West Virginia Bernard H. Meadows Clayton Spangler Darlene Dotson Carolyn Critchfield, Individually and as Voter Registrar of Kanawha County, West Virginia Ann Carroll, Individually and as Chief Deputy of the County Commission of Kanawha County, West Virginia Cherrie Lloyd, John Hutchinson William Reese Leonard Underwood v. Margaret D. Miller, Individually and as Clerk of the County Commission of Kanawha County, West Virginia Steven L. Miller, Charles I. Jones, Jr., Trustee of the Bankruptcy Estate of Margaret D. Miller and Steven L. Miller, Trustee-Appellant, and David Michael Staton James E. Roark, Individually and as Prosecuting Attorney of Kanawha County, West Virginia John A. Cavacini, Jr. Henry C. Shores, as Commissioner of Kanawha County, West Virginia Robert F. Silverstein, as Commissioner of Kanawha County, West Virginia Computer Election Systems, Incorporated, a Foreign Corporation Bernard H. Meadows Clayton Spangler Irvine Keith Long Carl Clough Cherrie Lloyd William E. Biebel Darlene Dotson Carolyn Critchfield, Individually and as Voter Registrar of Kanawha County, West Virginia Ann Carroll, Individually and as Chief Deputy of the County Commission of Kanawha County, West Virginia · Hutchinson

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.