Reed v. Mims’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2018
9 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Polk County v. Dodson · Denton v. Hernandez · Mitchell v. Farcass · Northeastern International Airways, Inc. v. Department of Revenue · 686 So. 2d 573 - State v. Reyes
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(6) Before an indigent prisoner may intervene in or initiate any judicial proceeding, the court must review the prisoner’s claim to determine whether it is legally sufficient to state a cause of action for which the court has jurisdiction and may grant relief. The court shall dismiss all or part of an indigent prisoner’s claim which: (a) Fails to state a claim for which relief may be granted; (b) Seeks monetary relief from a defendant who is immune from such relief; (c) Seeks relief for mental or emotional injury when there has been no related allegation of physical injury; or (d) Is frivolous, malicious, or reasonably appears to be intended to harass one or more named defendants. [[Image here]] (9) In determining whether an action is frivolous or malicious, the court may consider whether: (a) The prisoner’s claim has no arguable basis in law or fact; (b) The prisoner’s claim reasonably appears intended solely to harass a party filed against; (c) The prisoner’s claim is substantially similar to a previous claim in that it involves the same parties or arises from the same operative facts as a previous claim; (d) The prisoner’s claim has little likelihood of success on its merits; or (e) The allegations of fact in the prisoner’s claim are fanciful or not credible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.