Bullock v. Suomela’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 102 · 1983
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Roller v. Gunn (1997), Belitskus v. Pizzingrilli (2003)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · Goldstein v. Garrity · Evans v. Croom · Souder v. McGuire · Braden v. Estelle
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district court was guilty of an abuse of discretion in requiring [Jones] to pay [$5.00] of the filing fee as a prerequisite to being granted status in forma pauperis and, therefore, erred in dismissing his complaint because of his failure to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Zimmerman“those small amenities of life which they are permitted to acquire in a prison”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Zimmerman
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.