Fahrenz’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Kunstler Nakell Pitts Robeson Defense Committee, In Re Varona (2008)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Stevens v. Lawyers Mutual Liability Insurance · Cleveland Demolition Co. v. Azcon Scrap Corp. · Dreiling Lj v. Peugeot Motors of America Inc Sa · Basch v. Westinghouse Electric 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not necessarily mean actual expenses and attorney's fees.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chapman & Cole and Ccp, Ltd., Plaintiffs-Counter Appellees-Cross v. Itel Container International B v. And Itel Containers International Corp. (Itel), Defendants-Counter Third Party Appellants-Cross Urquhart and Hassell, Attorneys for Itel Container International B v. V. Norman Ehrentraut, Third Party · In Re Kunstler.“[W]e can only conclude that the plaintiff’s pursuit of its cause of action was objectively frivolous once the three key witnesses had been deposed and had repudiated the accusations that had formed the basis for the plaintiff’s amended complaint. Plaintiff’s counsel acted unreasonably in filing a brief in opposition to summary judgment once this evidence came to light. We conclude, therefore, that the trial court’s order imposing Rule 11 sanctions ... is entitled to deference as it was not an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Denny v. Hinton“pleading, motion, and other paper ... constitutes a certificate by the signer ... that to the best of the signer’s knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry it is well grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law, or a good faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law, and that it is not interposed for any improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation.”
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.