Williams v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
116 F.3d 1126 · 1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2025
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Barrett v. Atlantic Richfield Co. · Thurman v. Gramley · Jackson v. Stinnett · In re Tyler · Strickland v. Rankin County Correctional Facility
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e hold that the plain language of the PLRA requires that appellate fees be assessed at the moment the appeal is filed, regardless of whether the appeal is later dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he filing fee is to be assessed for the privilege of initiating an appeal, without regard to the subsequent disposition of the matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.