United States v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably In re Orthopedic Bone Screw Products Liability Litigation (1999), Childs v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1994)
12 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
Relies on Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Marino v. Ortiz · Thomas v. Capital Security Services, Inc. · Marino v. Ortiz · Meyers v. M/v Eugenio C Spa
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district court here did not cite any `unusual circumstances' that warranted sanctions. The court merely asserted the view that the claim was filed for an improper purpose. Even though detailed findings are not required to uphold an award of sanctions, there must be some record to review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Of course, a claim that is utterly insupportable may be sanctionable even if the circuit has not addressed the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Ozee“the absence of authority in this Circuit combined with the complexity of the issue”
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.