Miller v. Pleasure’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.2d 1205 · 1970
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1993 · most notably Welch v. Smith (1987), Miller v. Simmons (1987)
18 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Simpson v. United States · Roberts v. United States District Court · Wallace G. West and Claudia M. West v. Charles S. Zurhorst and Susan M. Zurhorst · Miller v. Pleasure
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“closes the door to the courthouse to a plaintiff having a right to enter ... an order declining to request an attorney to represent him simply denies an added facility in the prosecution of his claim which Congress has left to the discretion of the court.”
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.