Prince v. Klune’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.2d 18 · 1945
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 1975 · most notably Paul Rodger Weller v. Fred H. Dickson, Andrew Emmitte Pope v. Richard A. McGee (1963), Higgins v. Steele (1952)
27 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Kinney v. Plymouth Rock Squab Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Standard Oil Co.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This statutory privilege of filing a suit without prepaying costs is conferred only upon a citizen who is ‘entitled to commence’ a suit. In- a sense it may be said that one is always entitled to commence any suit, even a suit which asserts no claim upon which relief can be granted. But the quoted phrase in its context cannot reasonably be interpreted so broadly. The statute is not intended to confer the privilege of commencing, without prepaying costs, a suit which is plainly without merit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Richardson v. Hatch
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.