Almarez v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 162 W. Va. 857 - Morningstar v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co. (1979), Goedecke v. State, Dept. of Institutions (1979)
1 district · 49 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Ferrara v. Auric Mining Co. · Spain v. Murry · Baber v. Bowe · Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. v. Menapace
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the judge or justice of any court ... is at any time satisfied that any person is ... a poor person and unable to pay the costs and expenses [of prosecuting or defending a civil action] ... the judge or justice, in his discretion, may permit such person to commence and prosecute ... an action ... without payment of costs....””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““1. Does Colorado Rev.Stat. § 33-1-3 give an individual, found to be a pauper within the meaning of said statute, a right to a trial transcript without cost in order to prosecute an appeal? “2. If Colo.Rev.Stat. § 33-1-3 is found not to require that a trial transcript without cost be provided, under such circumstances, then is Colo.Rev. Stat. § 33-1-3 violative of Art. II § 6 of the Colorado Constitution ?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Almarez v. Carpenter“From an analysis of the statute [the predecessor of section 13-16-103, identical in pertinent part to the current statute] it appears that, in the first instance, whether a litigant may commence or defend an action or proceeding without the payment of costs rests within the sound judicial discretion of the judge.”
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.