Bruce v. Samuels’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedPinson v. Samuels (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 1 (Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002) · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 1930 (§ 246 of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (Title 11)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Neitzke v. Williams · Bounds v. Smith · Jones v. Bock · Woodford v. Ngo
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) ... [I]f a prisoner brings a civil action or files an appeal in forma pauperis, the prisoner shall be required to pay the full amount of a filing fee. The court shall assess and, when funds exist, collect, as a partial payment of any court fees required by law, an initial partial filing fee of 20 percent of the greater of- "(A) the average monthly deposits to the prisoner's account; or "(B) the average monthly balance in the prisoner's account for the 6-month period immediately preceding the filing of the complaint or notice of appeal. "(2) After payment of the initial partial filing fee, the prisoner shall be required to make monthly payments of 20 percent of the preceding month's income credited to the prisoner's account. The agency having custody of the prisoner shall forward payments from the prisoner's account to the clerk of the court each time the amount in the account exceeds $10 until the filing fees are paid."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bruce v. Samuels“Ibid. (emphasis added). Even when more than one filing fee is owed, Bruce contends, the statute instructs that only one clerk will receive payment each month; in other words, fee payments are to be made sequentially rather than simultaneously. The initial partial payment, which is charged on a per-case basis, plus the three-strikes provision, Bruce urges, together suffice to satisfy the PLRA's purpose, which is to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bruce v. Samuels“Coleman v. Tollefson, 575 U.S. ----, ----, 135 S.Ct. 1759 , 1762, 191 L.Ed.2d 803 (2015) (quoting Jones v. Bock, 549 U.S. 199 , 204, 127 S.Ct. 910 , 166 L.Ed.2d 798 (2007) ; alteration in original). Among those measures, Congress required prisoners to pay filing fees for the suits or appeals they launch. The provisions on fee payment, set forth in § 1915(b), read:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bruce v. Samuels
How this case has been treated — in progress
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