Roberts v. United States District Court’s Empirical Analysis
339 U.S. 844 · 1950
Citation profile
292 federal appellate · 3 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 472 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Mitchell v. Forsyth (1985), Coppedge v. United States (1962)
292 federal appellate · 3 district · 23 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway 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 472 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The denial by a District Judge of a motion to proceed in forma pauperis is an appealable order.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The decision of the District Court is in error. Citizenship for the purpose of in forma pauperis proceedings in the federal courts is solely a matter of federal law. Congress has not specified criminal convictions, except for desertion and treason, as grounds for loss of citizenship.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCollum v. Mayfield
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.