Collier v. Tatum’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 653 · 1983
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Rivera v. Allin (1998), Roller v. Gunn (1997)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 · Southern Railway Co. v. Jackson · Evans v. Croom · Paul Rodger Weller v. Fred H. Dickson, Andrew Emmitte Pope v. Richard A. McGee
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the purpose of the rule [imposing the filing fee], the litigation history of the defendant, 2 the apparent good faith in prosecution of the lawsuit, the actual dollars involved as well as the percentages, and our basic policy that [the courts are] open to all good faith litigants, rich and poor alike.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be given some reasonable opportunity, after appropriate notice, to explain and refute any finding to that effect, just as [the inmate] has a right, after notice, to bring to the court's attention other factors that may authorize either excusing entirely any payment or reducing same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e hold that a district court may, in its discretion, require a partial filing fee of a prisoner-plaintiff who has some assets but is unable to pay the full amount of the fee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rivera v. Allin
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.