Jones v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
777 F.2d 1277 · 1985
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Duckworth v. Franzen (1985), Goka v. Bobbitt (1988)
31 federal appellate · 2 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Smith v. Wade · Finney v. Arkansas Board of Correction · Benson v. Cady
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress has chosen to strike the balance between [the need to curb the abuses necessarily associated with in forma pauperis litigation and the concern for ensuring indigent litigants meaningful access to the federal courts] by permitting the district court to dismiss with prejudice those claims which are frivolous or malicious. In this circuit, the district court conducts this inquiry even before the defendants are served. [Emphasis added.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the mere incantation of magic words such as 'recklessness' " will not create an Eighth Amendment claim without "specific facts such as a history of accidents or a previous request for repairs that had fallen on deaf ears.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“petitioner can make no rational argument in law or facts to support his claim for relief.”
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.