Zarnes v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.3d 285 · 1995
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Antonelli v. Sheahan (1996), Pruitt v. Mote (2007)
47 federal appellate · 2 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“given the difficulty of the case, did the plaintiff appear to be competent to try it himself and, if not, would the presence of counsel have made a difference in the outcome?”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“request counsel to represent indigents in appropriate cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accept all the factual allegations in the complaint and draw all reasonable inferences from these facts in favor of the plaintiff.”
1 later decision 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.