Ragan v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
305 F.2d 58 · 1962
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Martinez v. Aaron (1978), James M. Debardeleben v. J.M. Quinlan, R.L. Matthews, N.W. Smith, R.G. Simpson, E. Cave, and W.A. Blount (1991)
104 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 Coppedge v. United States · Quirin Haupt Kerling Burger Heinck Thiel Neubauer United States Quirin v. Cox Usa 6 · Gilliam v. United States · Roberts v. United States District Court · Seelig v. United States
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis ...”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An appeal may not be taken in forma pauperis if the trial court certifies in writing that it is not taken in good faith.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a rational argument on the law or facts.”
2 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.