Smart v. Heinze’s Empirical Analysis
347 F.2d 114 · 1965
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Bradshaw v. Zoological Society of San Diego (1981), Tripati v. First National Bank & Trust (1987)
25 federal appellate · 2 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 Paul Rodger Weller v. Fred H. Dickson, Andrew Emmitte Pope v. Richard A. McGee · Clough v. Hunter · Huffman v. Smith · Tate v. People
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the duty of the District Court to examine any application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis to determine whether the proposed proceeding has merit and if it appears that the proceeding is without merit, the court is bound to deny a motion seeking leave to proceed in forma pauperis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The latitude of discretion accorded the ruling of the district court in such matters is especially broad in civil actions [brought] by prisoners against their wardens and other officials connected with the institution in which they are incarcerated.” Id. at 116 .”
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.