Martin v. Demma’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 69 · 1987
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Wilson v. Giesen (1992), Mendoza v. Lynaugh (1993)
27 federal appellate ·
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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Haines v. Kerner · Wilson v. Garcia · West v. Conrail
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since their applications required court approval, administrative delay was inherent in the nature of the suit.... Clerical delay in the formal filing of this in for-ma pauperis complaint should not affect the operative event, that is, the receipt of the complaint by the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]eceipt of the complaint by the court clerk, rather than formal filing, determines the time of filing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butts v. Dutton
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.