Roman v. Jeffes’s Empirical Analysis
904 F.2d 192 · 1990
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Deutsch v. United States (1995), Young v. Quinlan (1992)
21 federal appellate · 9 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Haines v. Kerner · Neitzke v. Williams · Bell v. Hood · Turner v. Safley
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The officers of the court shall issue and serve all process, and perform all duties in such cases. Witnesses shall attend as in other cases, and the same remedies shall be available as are provided for by law in other cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court grant[ed] or denie[d] in forma pauperis status based on economic criteria alone and then, if warranted, dismisse[d] the [case] as frivolous pursuant to § 1915(d).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Sage“is appropriate only when the complaint is truly frivolous and no amendment would cure the defect”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young II v. Kann
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.