Mitchell v. Farcass’s Empirical Analysis
112 F.3d 1483 · 1997
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 213 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r (2000), Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999)
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Neitzke v. Williams · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Bell v. Hood · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Hagans v. Lavine
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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court shall dismiss the case at any time if the court determines that . . . the action or appeal . . . fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]n no event shall a prisoner be prohibited from bringing a civil action or appealing a civil or criminal judgment for the reason that the prisoner has no assets and no means by which to pay the initial partial filing fee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“fails to state a claim on which relief may be granted”
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.