Simpson v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 33 · 1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Theresa Gregory v. Edward J. Daly (2001), Taylor v. Virginia Union University (1999)
13 federal appellate · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Cabell v. Petty · Feazell v. Augusta County Jail · Settles v. Pinkerton, 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 11, by its own terms, can never be the basis for sanctions for failure to file certain papers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not purport to be a means for district courts to sanction conduct in the course of a lawsuit ... that does not involve the signing of pleadings, motions, or other papers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“lackadaisical attitude in failing to respond to defendants' Motion for Award of Attorneys' Fees.”
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.