Pruitt v. Mote’s Empirical Analysis
503 F.3d 647 · 2007
Citation profile
50 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 206 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Jackson v. Kotter (2008), Berry v. Peterman (2010)
50 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Thomas v. Arn · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Kolender v. Lawson
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 206 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the difficulty of the case-factually and legally-exceeds the particular plaintiff's capacity as a layperson to coherently present it.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. James v. Eli · McCaa v. Hamilton“resisted laying down categorical rules regarding recruitment of counsel in particular types of cases”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. James v. Eli · Walker v. Price“given the difficulty of the case, does the plaintiff appear competent to litigate it himself?”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. James v. Eli · Walker v. Price
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.