Lupo v. R. Rowland & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
857 F.2d 482 · 1988
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably White v. General Motors Corp. (1990), Sanders v. Clemco Industries (1988)
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · United States v. Indrelunas · O'Connell v. Champion International Corp. · Obin v. District No. 9 of the International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Bankruptcy Rule 9011 provides, in salient part: Every petition, pleading, motion or other paper served or filed in a case under the code on behalf of a party represented by an attorney ... shall be signed by at least one attorney of record [.] ... The signature of an attorney or a party constitutes a certificate that the attorney or party has read the document; that to the best of the attorney’s or party’s knowledge, information, and belief formed after a 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, to cause delay, or to increase the cost of litigation. ... If a document is . signed in violation of this rule, the court on motion or on its own initiative, shall impose on the person who signed it, the representative party, or both, an appropriate sanction which may include an order to pay the other party or parties the amount of the reasonable expenses incurred because of the filing of the document, including a reasonable attorney’s fees.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a manner that escalated costs unnecessarily and vexatiously.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cohen v. Lupo · Cohen v. Lupo“[t]he imposition of sanctions is a serious matter and should be approached with circumspection,”
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.