Watson v. Ault’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.2d 886 · 1976
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Spears v. Ol McCotter (1985), Elliott v. Perez (1985)
88 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anders v. California · Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · WILWORDING Et Al. v. SWENSON, WARDEN
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the allegation of poverty is untrue, or if (the court is) satisfied that the action is frivolous or malicious.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“factual and legal basis, of constitutional dimension, for the asserted wrong.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n evaluating the legal sufficiency of a complaint for purposes of § 1915(d), we apply the customary standard enunciated in Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41 , 45-46, 78 S.Ct. 99 , 101-102, 2 L.Ed.2d 80 (1957), that: a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.