Minotti v. Lensink’s Empirical Analysis
895 F.2d 100 · 1990
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States ex rel. Kreindler & Kreindler v. United Technologies Corp. (1993), United States v. University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center (1992)
25 federal appellate · 8 district · 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
Applies 31 U.S.C. § 3730 (False Claims Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Scharffe v. Perkins · Kilcullen v. United States · Update Art, Inc. v. Modiin Publishing, Ltd.
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he action may be dismissed only if the court and the Attorney General give written consent to the dismissal and their reasons for consenting.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“although qui tam actions allow individual citizens to initiate enforcement against wrongdoers who cause injury to the public at large, the Government remains the real party in interest in any such action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“continues to apply only where the plaintiff seeks voluntary dismissal of the action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a), and not where the court orders dismissal.”
4 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.