Van Meter v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.2d 366 · 1975
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Crisafi v. Holland (1981), Collins v. Cundy (1979)
22 federal appellate · 6 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · Thomas v. United States · Duhart v. Carlson · Williams v. Field · Cole v. Smith
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing the dismissal of a complaint filed in an in forma pauperis proceeding, we employ an abuse of discretion standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Horsey v. Asher · Wattson v. Olsen
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.