Drone v. Hutto’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.2d 543 · 1977
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1996 · most notably Ulmer v. Chancellor (1982), Maclin v. Freake (1981)
19 federal appellate ·
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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Curtis v. Loether · Ross v. Bernhard · Rutledge v. Electric Hose & Rubber Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in circumstances where a petitioner's poverty forces him to proceed pro se, a court ought not to reject on technical grounds a right asserted within the hand-drawn (pro se ) complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miles v. Ertl Co.“It will be helpful if demands for jury trial are made separate from the complaint or answer filed in any cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Drone v. Hutto“trial by jury on all facts trialable (sic) by jury(.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Drone v. Hutto
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.