De Long v. Hennessey’s Empirical Analysis
912 F.2d 1144 · 1990
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 11 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably O'Loughlin v. Doe (1990), Molski v. Evergreen Dynasty Corp. (2007)
47 federal appellate · 11 district · 14 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. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Carafas v. J · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Brooklier v. United States · Scott v. Rosenberg · South Dakota ex rel. Aurora v. Olgilvie
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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ederal courts can 'regulate the activities of abusive litigants by imposing carefully tailored restrictions under ... appropriate circumstances.' " Ringgold-Lockhart v. Cty. of Los Angeles, 761 F.3d 1057 , 1061 (9th Cir. 2014) (quoting De Long v. Hennessey , 912 F.2d 1144 , 1147 (9th Cir. 1990) ). "Flagrant abuse of the judicial process cannot be tolerated because it enables one person to preempt the use of judicial time that properly could be used to consider the meritorious claims of other litigants.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Reiner · Taifa v. Bayh“[f]ederal courts can 'regulate the activities of abusive litigants by imposing carefully tailored restrictions under ... appropriate circumstances.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“narrowly tailored to closely fit the specific vice encountered.”
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.