A Sealed Case’s Empirical Analysis
890 F.2d 15 · 1989
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Maksym v. Loesch (1991), Hicklin Engineering, L.C. v. Bartell (2006)
14 federal appellate · 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 Pennsylvania v. Finley · Mallard v. United States Dist. Court for Southern Dist. of Iowa · Nix v. Whiteside · Richardson-Merrell Inc. v. Koller Ex Rel. Koller · Ohntrup v. Firearms Center, Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Systematic interests are best served by remitting such litigants to their own devices rather than by forcing lawyers to put both their reputations and their treasury at the disposal of [their clients].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Fees are matters of contract, and unless the fee is so exorbitant that its collection offends [professional conduct rules], disputes about that are resolved under that body of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not essential to the administration of justice,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Towns v. Morris
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.