Fowler v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
899 F.2d 1088 · 1990
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Tabron v. Grace (1993), Smith v. Ford Motor Co. (2000)
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Jones v. Howard · Ulmer v. Chancellor · Romandette v. Weetabix Co. · Collins v. Foreman · McDonald v. Johnson & Johnson
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appointment of counsel in a civil case ... is a privilege that is justified only by exceptional circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tabron v. Grace“Appointment of counsel in a civil case is not a constitutional right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parham v. Johnson“[e]xplicit, voluntary consent is crucial to this procedure”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Whitworth
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.