Davis v. Crush’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 84 · 1988
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Keene Corporation v. Je Cass 622 (1990), United States v. $515,060.42 in United States Currency (1998)
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Pierson v. Ray · Invst Financial Group, Inc. v. Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. · Rathbun v. Warren City Schools · Webster v. Sowders
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[R]elevant factors for determining whether the reasonable inquiry test has been met in a given case include: 'the time available to the signor for investigation; whether the signor had to rely on a client for information as to the facts underlying the pleading, motion, or other paper; whether the pleading, motion, or other paper was based upon a plausible view of the law; or whether the signor depended on forwarding counsel or another member of the bar.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““constitutes a certificate by the signer ... that to the best of the signer’s knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry [the material submitted] 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____”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The notes of the Advisory Committee on Rules explain that “[t]he new language stresses the need for some prefiling inquiry into both the facts and the law to satisfy the affirmative duty imposed by the rule.””
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.