Giebelhaus’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2011
1 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Pavelic v. Marvel Entertainment Group · Zaldivar v. City of Los Angeles · White v. American Airlines, Inc. · Townsend v. Holman Consulting Corp.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The signing attorney cannot leave it to [another] to satisfy himself that the filed paper is factually and legally responsible; by signing he represents not merely the fact that it is so, but also the fact that he personally applied his own judgment. ... [T]he text [of Rule 9011] establishes a duty that cannot be delegated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absent a signature, [the attorney's] relationship to the litigation is irrelevant under the express terms of Rule 11.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] district court would necessarily abuse its discretion if it based its ruling on an erroneous view of the law....”
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.