In Re Amendment to Rule 39’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Florida v. Bostick (1991), United States v. Sims (1992)
13 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on in Re Jessie McDonald · In Re Michael Sindram · In Re Demos · Wade v. United States
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“39.8 If satisfied that a petition for a writ of certiorari, jurisdictional statement, or petition for an extraordinary writ, as the case may be, is frivolous or malicious, the Court may deny a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zatko v. California“And with each barrier that it places in the way of indigent litigants, . . . the Court can only reinforce in the hearts and minds of our society's less fortunate members the unsettling message that their pleas are not welcome here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Zatko v. California“[i]t is vital that the right to file in forma pauperis not be incumbered by those who would abuse the integrity of our process by frivolous filings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zatko v. California
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.