Lockary v. Kayfetz’s Empirical Analysis

974 F.2d 1166 · 1992

Citation profile

cited by 66 later decisions

states following

April 2019

most recently cited

29 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Margolis v. Ryan (1998), Caldwell v. Unified Capital Corp. (1996)

29 federal appellate · 4 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

Relies on Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc.

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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“that the district court erred in including the defendants' attorneys' fees for preparing their motion for sanctions in the sanctions imposed.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Preferred Communications, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Preferred Communications, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power · Orange Blossom Ltd. Partnership v. Southern California Sunbelt Developers, Inc.
“A court may impose sanctions pursuant to its inherent powers only when it finds the action in question was taken in bad faith,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Dixon v. Comm'r · First Bank of Marietta v. Hartford Underwriters Insurance
“contacted and organized the plaintiffs and paid for the litigation ... [and had] sometimes ... held itself out as the representative of the plaintiffs, sometimes as the employer of the plaintiffs’ lawyers, and always as the entity directing the litigation and “calling the shots.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Jemison v. National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.

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.