Duhart v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.2d 471 · 1972
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably St. Louis Baptist Temple, Inc. v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1979), Crisafi v. Holland (1981)
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · William Marbury v. James Madison · Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View · United States v. James Griggs Raines · Barrows v. Jackson
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * * * * (d) The court may request an attorney to represent any such person unable to employ counsel and may dismiss the case if the allegation of poverty is untrue, or if satisfied that the action is frivolous or malicious.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“costs at the conclusion of the suit or action as in other cases.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“able to prepay the cost of an action has no constitutional right of access to the courts to prosecute an action that is frivolous,”
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.