Samuels v. Wilder’s Empirical Analysis
906 F.2d 272 · 1990
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Brandt v. Schal Associates, Inc. (1992), Scott v. City of Chicago (1999)
18 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Pavelic v. Marvel Entertainment Group · Oliveri v. Thompson · Thomas v. Capital Security Services, Inc. · Mars Steel Corp. v. Continental Bank N.A.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bar the courthouse door to people who have support for a complaint but need discovery to prove their complaint, the need for discovery does not excuse the filing of a vacuous complaint.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Persons required to pay sanctions have no entitlement to a perfect match between the award and the [opposing party's] legal fees, and the discretion the district judge possesses in deciding whether the conduct is sanctionable extends as well to the selection of the sanction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ection 1927 and Rule 11 are addressed to different conduct ... Sec. 1927 differs from Rule 11 because it does not require 'reasonable' investigation.”
2 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.