White v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably State ex rel. Carter v. Schotten (1994), Deutsch v. United States (1995)
52 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Neitzke v. Williams · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if satisfied that the action is frivolous.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an arguable basis either in law or in fact,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“failed to contain any factual allegations tending to support his bare assertion.”
3 later decisions 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.