Haynes v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
116 F.3d 137 · 1997
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2016
7 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
Relies on Jackson v. Stinnett · Leonard v. Lacy · Floyd v. United States Postal Service · McGann v. Commissioner, Social Security Administration · 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.
“(a)(1) Subject to subsection (b), any court of the United Slates may authorize the commencement, prosecution or defense of any suit, action or proceeding, civil or criminal, or appeal therein, without payment of fees and costs or security therefor, by a person who makes affidavit submits an affidavit includes a statement of all assets such prisoner possesses that he the person is unable to pay such costs fees or give security therefor. Such affidavit shall state the nature of the action, defense or appeal and the affiant’s belief that fee the person is entitled to redress.”
3 later decisions 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.