Beard v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Fulsom v. Fulsom (2003), Head v. McCracken (2004)
2 federal appellate · 25 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
Relies on CITY NATL. BANK & TRUST CO. v. Owens · Vanderpool v. State · Ada-Konawa Bridge Co. v. Cargo · Kay v. Venezuelan Sun Oil Co. · Niemeyer v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
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.
““In ... any action for damages to personal rights the court shall, subsequent to adjudication on the merits and upon motion of the prevailing party, determine whether a claim or defense asserted in the action by a nonprevailing party was asserted in bad faith, was not well grounded in fact, or was unwarranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law. Upon so finding, the court shall enter a judgment ordering such nonprevailing party to reimburse the prevailing party an amount not to exceed Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) for reasonable costs, including attorney fees, incurred with respect to such claim or defense.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Sitatutes authorizing prevailing party attorney fees are strictly applied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“review the record and reconsider the merit of the nonprevailing claim or defense within the confines of § 108.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.