Clark v. Booth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2016
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry [the pleading or motion] is well grounded in fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morse v. Packer“Islanctions ... imposed under rule 11 ... may be assessed at any time during the course of a judicial proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morse v. Packer“no relationship to the disposition of the case on its merits.”
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.