Chipps v. U.S.D.C. for the M.D. of Pa.’s Empirical Analysis
882 F.2d 72 · 1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Brow v. Farrelly (1993), In Re Anthony R. Martin-Trigona, Movant. In Re George Sassower, Movant (1993)
6 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on In re Oliver · Gagliardi v. McWilliams
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Though a district court has the authority to require court permission for all subsequent filings once a pattern of vexatious litigation transcends a particular dispute, we conclude that on the present record, the scope of the District Court’s order should be limited [to the dispute at issue].”
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.