Watson v. Moss’s Empirical Analysis
619 F.2d 775 · 1980
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Wolfolk v. Rivera (1984), Deppe v. Tripp (1988)
39 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Dennis v. California · Ferri v. Ackerman · Peterson v. Nadler · Reynolds v. Mabry
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'There is no constitutional or statutory right for an indigent to have counsel appointed in a civil case. It of course follows there is no constitutional or statutory right to effective assistance of counsel in a civil case.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is no constitutional or statutory right for an indigent to have counsel appointed in a civil case.... It of course follows that there is no constitutional or statutory right to effective assistance of counsel in a civil case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] party ... does not have any right to a new trial in a civil suit because of inadequate counsel, but has as its remedy a suit against the attorney for malpractice.”
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.