Holt v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 850 · 1989
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Jackson v. County of McLean (1992), Devine ex rel. Devine v. Indian River County School Board (1997)
18 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If not granted in forma pauperis status, an indigent litigant is barred from proceeding at all in district court. Thus, the denial of leave to proceed in forma pau-peris is “effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment,” as there will be no final judgment from which to appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hammond v. Weekes“[w]e see no principled basis for distinguishing orders denying appointed counsel in Title VII cases from such orders in section 1983 cases.”
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.