Cleveland Demolition Co. v. Azcon Scrap Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
827 F.2d 984 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Aoude v. Mobil Oil Corp. (1989), Brubaker v. City of Richmond (1991)
20 federal appellate · 8 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 Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. · United States v. Munsey Trust Co. · Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York · Zaldivar v. City of Los Angeles · Barber v. Kimbrell'S, Inc.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has 'absolutely no chance of success under the existing precedent.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Rule does not seek to stifle the exuberant spirit of skilled advocacy or to require that a claim be proven before a complaint can be filed. The Rule attempts to discourage the needless filing of groundless lawsuits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is well grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law ... [and] that it is not interposed for any improper purpose, such as ... to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation.”
3 later decisions 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.