Collins v. Cundy’s Empirical Analysis
603 F.2d 825 · 1979
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 166 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Franklin v. Murphy (1984), Moore v. Marketplace Restaurant, Inc. (1985)
77 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Imbler v. Pachtman · Procunier v. Martinez · Cruz v. Beto
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 166 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Indigency, however, does not create a constitutional right to expend public funds and valuable time of the federal courts to prosecute an action which is totally without merit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Patten v. Green · Holsey v. Bass“[v]erbal harassment or abuse of the sort alleged in this case is not sufficient to state a constitutional deprivation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Petition for Leave to Proceed in Forma Pauperis,”
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.