Greenberg’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 119 Wash. 2d 210 - Bryant v. Joseph Tree, Inc. (1992), Newton v. Thomason (1994)
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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 Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co. · Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York · Texas State Commission for the Blind v. United States · Zaldivar v. City of Los Angeles · Golden Eagle Distributing Corp. v. Burroughs Corp.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The rule is not intended to chill an attorney’s enthusiasm or creativity in pursuing factual or legal theories. The court is expected to avoid using the wisdom of hindsight and should test the signer's conduct by inquiring what was reasonable to believe at the time the pleading ... was submitted.” [Emphasis added.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defendants were named as defendants in the complaint, however, the complaint was not served upon any of them ... The other defendants ... learned about the filing of the complaint from a newspaper article. The filing of the complaint, nonetheless, caused the defendants to incur costs and attorney fees. They also claim to have suffered additional damage. Moreover, the filing of the complaint necessarily triggered the expenditure of court resources. Frivolous complaints filed in violation of Rule 11 “sap the time of judges, forcing parties with substantial disputes to wait in a longer queue----” Sza bo Food Service [Inc. v. Canteen Corp., 823 F.2d 1073, 1077 (7th Cir.1987)], The defendants had standing to seek Rule 11 sanctions in the district court ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We hold that a complaint based on reasonable inquiry should not be found to be factually frivolous unless some clear authority or a litigant's own clear admission erases the factual underpinning from some essential element of the litigant's pleading.”
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.