Mays v. Chicago Sun-Times’s Empirical Analysis
865 F.2d 134 · 1989
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Mars Steel Corp. v. Continental Bank N.A. (1989), Heller Financial, Inc. v. Midwhey Powder Co. (1989)
43 federal appellate · 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg · Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'An appeal is frivolous when the result is obvious or when the appellant's argument is wholly without merit.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for purposes of delay or harassment or sheer obstinacy.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appellant's attorney could not have had a reasonable expectation that the same arguments would prevail in this court and merely delayed the inevitable by filing this appeal.”
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.