Smith’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 256 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Kelly v. Withrow (1994), Corneveaux v. CUNA Mutual Insurance Group (1996)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Parratt v. Taylor · Thomas v. Arn · Daniels v. Williams · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Hudson v. Palmer
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 256 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[o]nly those specific objections to the magistrate's report made to the district court will be preserved for appellate review; making some objections but failing to raise others will not preserve all the objections a party may have.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indications of this bad faith are findings that the claims advanced were meritless, that counsel knew or should have known this, and that the motive for filing the suit was for an improper purpose such as harassment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“award fees when a party litigates `in bad faith, vexatiously, wantonly, or for oppressive reasons.’”
2 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.