Didie v. Howes’s Empirical Analysis
988 F.2d 1097 · 1993
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Baker v. Alderman (1998), Norelus v. Denny's, Inc. (2010)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Haines v. Kerner · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Willy v. Coastal Corp. · Pelletier v. Zweifel
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) when a party files a pleading that has no reasonable factual basis; (2) when the party files a pleading that is based on a legal theory that has no reasonable chance of success and that cannot be advanced as a reasonable argument to change existing law; [or] (3) when the party files a pleading in bad faith for an improper purpose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he [Supreme] Court has ... [held] that a district court appropriately may impose Rule 11 sanctions in a case in which the district court subsequently is determined to have been without subject matter jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mahone v. Ray“[A] district court's postjudgment order denying Rule 11 sanctions is a properly appealable final order.”
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.