Rucks v. Boergermann’s Empirical Analysis
57 F.3d 978 · 1995
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Hill III v. Smithkline Beecham Corporation Do M W (2004), Toevs v. Reid (2012)
23 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 Tabron v. Grace · Maclin v. Freake · Williams v. Meese · McCarthy v. Weinberg
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the merits of the litigant's claims, the nature of the factual issues raised in the claims, the litigant's ability to present his claims, and the complexity of the legal issues raised by the claims”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review the denial of appointment of counsel in a civil case for an abuse of discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a firm grasp of the fundamental issues in his case and [was] capable of presenting his case intelligently and coherently.”
2 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.