Pratt v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 817 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2007
17 federal appellate · 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. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Bell v. Hood · Hudson v. Palmer · Block v. Rutherford · Toussaint v. McCarthy
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“frivolous within the meaning of [section] 1915(d) in that the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an action lacking arguable basis in law or in fact.”
1 later decision 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.