Morris v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
871 F.2d 948 · 1989
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2015
9 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 28 U.S.C. § 1963
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Hall v. Cole · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Shimman v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 18
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he determination of the right to sanctions ... for conduct during an appeal is reserved to the appellate court, although it may allow the trial court to fix the amount of the fees and costs.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“attorneys for conduct on appeal is not within the authority of the district courts and is reserved to the court in which the appellate conduct occurred”
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.