Pino v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 51 · 1995
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Walker v. Thompson (2002), Kropelnicki v. Siegel (2002)
15 federal appellate · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Neitzke v. Williams · Denton v. Hernandez · Calder v. Job · Tilton v. Missouri Pacific Railroad
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the claim is 'based on an indisputably meritless legal theory.' " Nance v. Kelly, 912 F.2d 605 , 606 (2d Cir.1990) (per curiam) (quoting Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319 , 327, 109 S.Ct. 1827, 1833, 104 L.Ed.2d 338 (1989)). A claim is based on an "indisputably meritless legal theory”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we have frequently urged district judges to use caution in deciding whether to dismiss [pro se] complaints [pursuant to Sec. 1915(d) ] prior to service upon defendants and the filing of a motion or answer ... caution need not lead to paralysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. Cuomo“plaintiff has alleged no facts indicating a continuous or ongoing violation of his constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.