Fite v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2006
1 federal appellate · 16 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
Relies on Doughty, Pearson & Co. v. Walker · Hickman v. Hickman · Adams v. Beall · Adams v. Webster · State ex rel. Graham v. Judge of the Eighth District Court
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 1. Tiiat any citizen of the United States entitled to commence any suit or action in any court of the United States, may commence and prosecute to conclusion any sucli suit or action witliout being required to prepay fees or costs, or give security therefor before or after bringing suit or action, upon filing in said court a statement under oatli, in writing, that, because of his poverty, he is unable to pay the costs of said suit or action which he is about to commence, or to give security for the same, and that he believes he is entitled to the redress he seeks by shell suit or action, and setting forth briefly the Dature of liis alleged cause of action. ' “Sec. 2. That after any such suit or action shall have been brought, or that is now pending, the plaintiff may answer and avoid a demand for fees or security for costs by filing a like affidavit, and wilful false swearing in any affidavit .provided for in this or the previous section, shall be punishable as perjury as in other cases. “Sec. 3. That the officers of court shall issue, serve all process, and perform all duties in such cases, and witnesses shall attend as in other cases, and the plaintiff shall have the same remedies as are provided by law in other cases.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Presto“No law or section of the Code shall be amended or repealed by mere reference to its title, or to the number of the section of the Code, but the amending or repealing Act shall distinctly describe the law to be amended or repealed, as well as the alteration to be made.” Section 5A of the 1970 Act (Ga. L. 1970, pp. 724-728) reads:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayson v. Davis
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.