Mars v. Hanberry’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 254 · 1985
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Lavado v. Keohane (1993), Knop v. Johnson (1992)
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on ITT Gilfillan v. Clayton · Maclin v. Freake · Childs v. Duckworth · McKeever v. Israel · Wright 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ppointment of counsel pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d) is not appropriate when a pro se litigant's claims are frivolous ... or when the chances of success are extremely slim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.