Leroy Cook v. V. Lee Bounds, Com. Dept. Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.2d 779 · 1975
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Gordon v. Leeke (1978), Tabron v. Grace (1993)
33 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 United States ex rel. Gardner v. Madden
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In civil actions the appointment of counsel should be allowed only in exceptional cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tabron v. Grace
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.