McCormick v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2020
1 district · 5 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 Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. · Times-Picayune Pub Co v. United States · Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 2 v. Hyde · International Salt Co. v. United States
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A losing position does not necessarily justify an award of attorney fees ... if, as here, a plaintiff makes a good faith presentation of an arguably meritorious legal theory upon which no determinative authority in Colorado exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.