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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 16 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Riddle & Associates, P.C. v. Judith A. Kelly, Appeals Of: Edelman, Combs & Latturner, Cross-Appellee, and David L. Hartsell and Ross & Hardies.

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1 Riddle & Associates, P.C. v. Judith A. Kelly, Appeals Of: Edelman, Combs & Latturner, Cross-Appellee, and David L. Hartsell and Ross & Hardies Anchor
ca7 · 2005
green “if a lawyer pursues a path that a reasonably careful attorney would have known, after appropriate inquiry, to be unsound, the conduct is objectively unreasonable and vexatious.” 8
2 Langley v. Union Electric Company
ca7 · 1997
green “reasonableness of the conduct or lack thereof, which eventually culminates in the violation.” 4
3 Langley v. Union Electric Company
ca7 · 1997
green “willfulness, bad faith or fault.” 4

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