Leonard v. Lacy’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.3d 181 · 1996
Citation profile
36 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Reyes v. Keane (1996), Newlin v. Helman (1997)
36 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
Relies on Neitzke v. Williams · Pillay v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Hidalgo-Disla v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`to reduce frivolous prisoner litigation by making all prisoners seeking to bring lawsuits or appeals feel the deterrent effect created by liability for filing fees.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n no event shall a prisoner be prohibited from bringing a civil action or appealing a civil or criminal judgment for the reason that the prisoner has no assets and no means by which to pay the initial partial filing fee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“any suit, action, or proceeding, civil or criminal,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.