Hackman v. Valley Fair’s Empirical Analysis
932 F.2d 239 · 1991
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 38 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Cleveland v. Policy Management Systems Corp. (1999), Quiroga v. Hasbro, Inc. (1991)
22 federal appellate · 38 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 · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on DelCostello v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Gaiardo v. Ethyl Corp. · Jones v. Pittsburgh National Corp. · Vadino v. A. Valey Engineers
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any attorney ... who so multiplies the proceedings in any case unreasonably and vexatiously may be required by the court to satisfy personally the excess costs, expenses, and attorney's fees reasonably incurred because of such conduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he objective of summary judgment would be seriously impaired if the [trial] court were not free to disregard the conflicting affidavit.”
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.