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696 F.2d 145 · 1983

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
January 2020
most recently cited

21 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Miller v. Simmons (1987), Henry v. City of Detroit Manpower Department (1985)

21 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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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. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · Mercantile National Bank at Dallas v. C H Langdeau Republic National Bank of Dallas · Bradshaw v. Zoological Society of San Diego

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “enmeshed in the factual and legal issues comprising the plaintiff's cause of action.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “We do not think that a denial of appointed counsel at the outset necessarily 'conclusively determine[s] the disputed question ....' [Coopers,] 437 U.S. at 468, 98 S.Ct. [2454] at 2457. We would expect the district court to leave the order 'subject to revision,' id. 437 U.S. at 469, 98 S.Ct. at 2458, as, for example, where a possibly meritorious case appears to be developing.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “... we are unpersuaded by arguments to the effect that pro se plaintiffs are such a frail class of litigants that denial of appointed counsel at the outset effectively terminates the suit ....”
    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.