107 F.3d -1349 - Roller v. Gunn’s Empirical Analysis
107 F.3d 227 · 1997
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Giarratano v. Johnson (2008), Mitchell v. Farcass (1997)
25 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Preiser v. Rodriguez · Hanna v. Plumer · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Michigan v. Long · Bounds v. Smith
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Requiring prisoners to make economic decisions about filing lawsuits does not deny access to the courts; it merely places the indigent prisoner in a position similar to that faced by those whose basic costs of living are not paid by the state.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he right of access to federal courts is not a free-floating right, but rather is subject to Congress's Article III power to set limits on federal legislation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rivera v. Allin · Murray v. Dosal“Congress is no more compelled to guarantee free access to federal courts than it is to provide unlimited access to them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.