Terry Ray Taylor v. M. M. (Hoot) Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 709 · 1976
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Howard v. King (1983), Franklin v. Murphy (1984)
78 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
Relies on Anders v. California · Haines v. Kerner · Robinson v. State of California · United States v. Price · Cruz v. Hauck
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) complaint conflicting with facts of which the district court may take judicial notice might also properly be dismissed under Section 1915(d).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"imaginative and innovative methods of dealing with the flood of prisoner complaints and suits, most of which are . . filed in forma pauperis."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An opportunity should be provided the prisoner to develop his case at least to the point where any merit it contains is brought to light.”
3 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.