McKeever v. Israel’s Empirical Analysis
689 F.2d 1315 · 1982
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Lavado v. Keohane (1993), Matzker v. Herr (1984)
37 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n · Simpson v. United States · Maclin v. Freake · Bond v. Stanton
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the vast weight of authority in the Circuit and elsewhere demonstrates that the power of a court to provide counsel under section 1915(d) is commonly referred to as a power to "appoint.” (Footnotes omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] Any court of the United States may authorize the commencement, prosecution or defense of any suit, action or proceeding, civil or criminal, or appeal therein, without prepayment of fees and costs or security therefor, by a person who makes affidavit that he is unable to pay such costs or give security therefor ____ (d) The court may request an attorney to represent any such person unable to employ counsel and may dismiss the case if the allegation of poverty is untrue, or- if satisfied that the action is frivolous or malicious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whisenant v. Yuam““Discretionary appointments. — Any person ... seeking relief under section 2241, 2254, or 2255 of title 28 ... may be furnished representation pursuant to the plan whenever the United States magistrate or the Court determines that the interests of justice so require and such person is financially unable to obtain representation .... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Duckworth
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.