Caruth v. Pinkney’s Empirical Analysis
683 F.2d 1044 · 1982
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Mallard v. United States Dist. Court for Southern Dist. of Iowa (1989), Doe ex rel. Doe v. St. Joseph's Hospital of Fort Wayne (1986)
74 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Pell v. Procunier
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judge acts not as a mere moderator, but as the governor of the trial for the purpose of assuring its proper conduct and of determining questions of law. Quercia v. United States, 289 U.S. 466, 469 , 53 S.Ct. 698, 699 , 77 L.Ed. 1321 (1933). The trial judge must meet situations as they arise and to do this must have broad power to cope with the complexities inherent in the adversary process. Geders v. United States, 425 U.S. 80, 87 , 96 S.Ct. 1330, 1334 , 47 L.Ed.2d 592 (1976).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the merits of the indigent litigant’s claim (whether there is a colorable claim); (2) the nature of the factual issues raised in the claim, and whether the indigent is in a position to investigate crucial facts; (3) the need for legal counsel for cross-examination, particularly when there is a question of credibility; (4) the indigent litigant’s capability to present his own case; and (5) the complexity of the legal issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Lawyers have long served in state and federal practice as appointed counsel for indigents in both criminal and civil cases. The vast majority of the bar have viewed such appointments to be integrally within their professional duty to provide public service.... We have the utmost confidence that lawyers will always be found who will fully cooperate in rendering the indigent equal justice at the bar.””
3 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.