Reis v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 112 · 1986
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Brown v. Federation of State Medical Boards (1987), Nagle v. Alspach (1993)
30 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Dreis & Krump Manufacturing Co. v. International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers · 75 Ill. App. 3d 516 - Schmidt v. Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban and Fuller · Bacon v. American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees Council · 140 Ill. App. 3d 798 - Schnidt v. Henehan
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we are more lenient with regard to sanctioning pro se than represented appellants who file frivolous appeals (for arguments that a lawyer would or should recognize as clearly groundless may not appear so even to a reasonable lay person), [sanctions are justified here].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in an effort to make this point unmistakably clear to lawyers and litigants in this circuit”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e have decided to use our authority under Rule 38 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure to award attorney's fees on our own initiative....”
1 later decision 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.