Pavilonis v. King’s Empirical Analysis
626 F.2d 1075 · 1980
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 15 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Doe ex rel. Doe v. St. Joseph's Hospital of Fort Wayne (1986), Procup v. Strickland (1986)
43 federal appellate · 15 district · 13 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. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1986
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Kadar Corp. v. Milbury · Bill J. Gambocz v. Anthony M. Yelencsics · Pennsylvania v. Linde
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]itigiousness alone will not support an injunction against a plaintiff, . . . and . . . the use of such measures against a pro se plaintiff should be approached with caution.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peoples v. State · Zorn v. Smith“remain very much the exception to the general rule of free access to the courts”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sires v. Fair · Zorn v. Smith“litigiousness alone will not support an injunction”
4 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.