Pace v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
709 F.2d 1428 · 1983
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2004
14 federal appellate ·
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 Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Peary v. Connecticut · Watson v. Ault · Terry Ray Taylor v. M. M. (Hoot) Gibson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the allegation of poverty is untrue, or if satisfied that the action is frivolous or malicious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips v. Mashburn“act arbitrarily and it may not deny the application on erroneous grounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Procup v. Strickland
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.