Smith-Bey v. Petsock’s Empirical Analysis
741 F.2d 22 · 1984
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 19 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Tabron v. Grace (1993), Miller v. Simmons (1987)
25 federal appellate · 19 district · 2 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · Stack v. Boyle · Flanagan v. United States
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he appointment of counsel for an indigent plaintiff in a civil case under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (d) is discretionary with the court and is usually only granted upon a showing of special circumstances indicating the likelihood of substantial prejudice to him resulting, for example, from his probable inability without such assistance to present the facts and legal issues to the court in a complex but arguably meritorious case.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o be appealable as a final collateral order, the challenged order must constitute 'a complete, formal and, in the trial court, final rejection'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holt v. Ford“be effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holt v. Ford
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.