Thornton v. General Motors Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• severing portion of district court's order imposing Rule 11 monetary sanctions from portion ordering payment of attorney's fees
• “[WJhere sanctions are imposed under Rule 11(c)(1)(B) by a district court on its own initiative, ... the award of attorney’s fees ... [does not] constitute a valid sanction.”
• “Normally, an unquantified award of attorney’s fees does not constitute a final appealable order pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291.”
• “Pendant appellate jurisdiction is only proper . . . where a final appealable order is ‘inextricably intertwined’ with an unappealable order or where review of the unappealable order is necessary to ensure meaningful review of the appealable order.”
• “[W]e are obligated to satisfy ourselves that appellate jurisdiction is proper.”

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Cited by

45 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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  Fifth Circuit· 1999-08-23· cited 271×
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  Fifth Circuit· 2009-04-22· cited 208×
• Kilburn v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  D.C. Circuit· 2004-07-30· cited 197×
• Tompkins v. Cyr
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-01-28· cited 146×
• Hunter v. Earthgrains Co. Bakery
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-01-30· cited 123×
• United States v. Kouri Perez
  First Circuit· 1999-05-10· cited 94×
• Cooper v. Westend Capital Management, L.L.C.
  Fifth Circuit· 2016-08-09· cited 93×
• Wallace v. County of Comal
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-02-14· cited 83×
• Indah v. United States Securities & Exchange Commission
  Sixth Circuit· 2011-09-06· cited 83×
• Israel Escobar v. Lance Montee
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-07-11· cited 66×
• Brunig v. Clark
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-02-18· cited 64×
• Hutchinson (Godlove) v. Pfeil
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-04-04· cited 56×
• Anthony Brown v. Rodney Strain, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-11-18· cited 56×
• Friends for American Free Enterprise Ass'n v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-03-01· cited 48×
• Lee Nuwesra, Esq., Ernesto Forbes v. Merrill Lynch, Fenner & Smith, Inc., Yolanda D'Apuzzo and Anthony Dibiase
  Second Circuit· 1999-04-22· cited 43×
• Marlin v. Moody National Bank, N.A.
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-06-30· cited 35×
• John J. Fannon Co. v. Fannon Products, LLC
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2006-02-16· cited 34×
• In Re U.S. Bureau of Prisons, DEPT. OF JUSTICE
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-03-14· cited 27×
• Fred Bowerman v. Field Asset Services, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2022-07-05· cited 23×
• Ali v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-05-28· cited 21×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-11· cited 4,510×
• Swint v. Chambers County Commission
  Supreme Court· 1995-03-01· cited 1,403×
• Patricia Thomas v. Capital Security Services, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-01-21· cited 679×
• Claude E. Woods v. Larry Smith
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-08-15· cited 622×
• Harry G. John v. Honorable Michael J. Barron, Harry G. John v. Donald A. Gallagher
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-03-08· cited 145×
• Shyres v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-01· cited 110×
• Summersgill Dardar v. Lafourche Realty Co., Inc., Col. Eugene S. Witherspoon
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-07-18· cited 91×
• Billiot v. BP Oil Co.
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1994-12-16· cited 72×
• Reinhold Didie, Hakan Bennhagen v. Ashley Howes, Jr.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1993-04-20· cited 71×
• Southern Travel Club, Inc. v. Carnival Air Lines, Inc., Southern Travel Club, Inc., Cross-Appellee v. Carnival Air Lines, Inc., Cross-Appellant
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-03-24· cited 70×
• Gilda Marx, Inc. v. Wildwood Exercise, Inc.
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-06-11· cited 68×
• Resolution Trust Corporation, in Its Corporate Capacity v. H.R. \Bum\ Bright, Hopkins & Sutter, Peter F. Lovato III and Thomas D. Graber
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-12-07· cited 53×
• Wayne Johnson v. Waddell & Reed, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-01-25· cited 51×
• Silver Star Enterprises, Inc. v. M/v Saramacca, Her Engines, Tackle, Apparel, Etc., in Rem
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-05-23· cited 43×
• Pamela K. Larsen and Peter A. Larsen v. City of Beloit, Daniel T. Kelley, and Richard v. Holm
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-12-05· cited 43×
• Thomas v. Cassidy v. Douglas J. Cassidy, Arthur T. Susman and P. Terrence Buehler
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-12-03· cited 10×

Other cases named Thornton v. General Motors Corp.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Thornton v. General Motors Corp.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1994-10-27· cited 8×