Minns v. Paul’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 899 · 1976
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably 250 Pa. Super. 262 - Barto v. Felix (1977), Reese v. Danforth (1979)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the need to recruit and hold able lawyers to represent indigents both full and part-time public defenders, as well as private practitioners appointed by courts to represent individual defendants or litigants, and (b) the need to encourage counsel in the full exercise of professionalism, I. e., the unfettered discretion, in the light of their training and experience, to decline to press the frivolous, to assign priorities between indigent litigants, and to make strategic decisions with regard to a single litigant as to how best his interests may be advanced.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he client has no economic incentive for eschewing frivolous claims. The experience of the federal courts in federal habeas corpus and § 1983 litigation demonstrates that indigents more frequently attempt to litigate claims which are patently without merit than do non-indigent parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reese v. Danforth · Dziubak v. Mott““In addition to contending that he did not act under color of state law so as to give the district court jurisdiction under § 1983, [the defendant] argues that by virtue of his position as a court-appointed attorney, he should enjoy absolute immunity from suits alleging that he violated § 1983. Because we agree with the latter contention, we do not reach the question of whether [the defendant] acted under color of state law.” Minns v. Paul, supra, at 890.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Harris
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.