Ortman v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
99 F.3d 807 · 1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Miller v. Donald (2008), Tropf v. Fidelity National Title Insurance (2002)
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Hebert v. Brown · McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission · 906 F. Supp. 416 - Ortman v. Thomas · 894 F. Supp. 1104 - Ortman v. Thomas
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.
“[w]e do not believe a person can be absolutely foreclosed from initiating an action in a court of the United States, though it is permissible to require one who has abused the legal process to make a showing that a tendered lawsuit is not frivolous or vexatious before permitting it to be filed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“from filing any civil lawsuit [in federal court] alleging or asserting factual or legal claims based upon or arising out of the legal or factual claims alleged in this action or any of the actions underlying it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“filing any civil lawsuit in a United States District Court alleging or asserting factual or legal claims based upon or arising out of any of the legal or factual claims alleged in these actions”
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.