Roller v. Gunn’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 8 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Mitchell v. Farcass (1997), Alexander v. Hawk (1998)
18 federal appellate · 8 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he has demonstrated an implied evaluation of that suit”
6 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“stopped short of an unlimited rule that an indigent at all times and in all cases has the right to relief without the payment of fees.”
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.