TMF Tool Co. v. Muller’s Empirical Analysis
913 F.2d 1185 · 1990
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Burda v. M. Ecker Co. (1992), Burda v. M. Ecker Co. (1993)
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1291
Relies on Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · Pavelic v. Marvel Entertainment Group · United States v. Indrelunas · 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nless an attorney who signed the offending court document is specifically identified for the imposition of sanctions, there can be no resulting judgment against him or her.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“district judges in this circuit must not treat decisions by other district judges, in this and a fortiori in other circuits, as controlling, unless of course the doctrine of res judicata or of collateral estoppel applies. Such decisions will normally be entitled to no more weight than their intrinsic persuasiveness merits.... [T]he responsibility for maintaining the law’s uniformity is a responsibility of appellate rather than trial judges....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For a variety of quite valid reasons, including consistency of result, it is an entirely proper practice for district judges to give deference to persuasive opinions by their colleagues on the same court. But, while this is a laudable and worthwhile practice, it does not convert district court decisions into binding precedent”
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.