Ray v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 474 · 1981
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Tabron v. Grace (1993), Ulmer v. Chancellor (1982)
40 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Hutto v. Finney · Maine v. Thiboutot · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court may request an attorney to represent any such person [allowed to proceed in forma pauperis ] unable to employ counsel.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Cuyler · Siers v. Morrash“The refusal to appoint counsel by the court was not based upon a failure to demonstrate indigency under § 1915, nor upon an exercise of discretion that this case was inappropriate for the appointment of counsel, but rather upon the ground that the court had no authority whatsoever to appoint counsel for civil litigants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McKeever v. Israel“a 'small class' of orders which fit within the following definition of collateral orders: '(T)he order must conclusively determine the disputed question, resolve an important issue completely separate from the merits of the action, and be effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment.'”
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.