Braden v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably Evans v. Croom (1981), Nasim v. Warden, Maryland House of Correction (1995)
22 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1914 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cruz v. Hauck · Adkins v. E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. · Southern Railway Co. v. Jackson · Blitz v. Boog · Watson v. Ault
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“who makes affidavit that he is unable to pay such costs or give security therefor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]ot only are prisoners uninfluenced by the restraints which customarily deter private citizens from filing frivolous or borderline causes of actions, [but] they actually are inclined to file lawsuits and engage in ‘writ writing’ since this is one of the few activities left available to them which is beyond the administrative control of prison officials.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"imaginative and innovative methods of dealing with the flood of prisoner complaints and suits, most of which are . . filed in forma pauperis."”
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.