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Reid Susman v. R Schmid F G’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably In Re: Bayshore Wire Products Corp (2000), 239 Ill. App. 3d 1034 - Sarno v. Thermen (1992)

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co. · Yermakov v. Fitzsimmons · Exchange National Bank v. Daniels

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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(i) If the court dismisses a petition under this section other than on consent of all petitioners and the debtor, and if the debt- or does not waive the right to judgment under this subsection, the court may grant judgment— (1) against the petitioners and in favor of the debtor for— (A) costs; or (B) a reasonable attorney’s fee; or (2) against any petitioner that filed the petition in bad faith, for— (A) any damages proximately caused by such filing; or (B) punitive damages.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “clearly contemplates that fees and costs will not be awarded in all cases.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “against any petitioner that filed the petition in bad faith.”
    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.