Mayfield v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.2d 560 · 1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2010
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Neitzke v. Williams · Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · Republic of Ghana v. Trefalcon Corp. · Ruiz v. Estelle · Ruiz v. Estelle
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall decline to accept and file any civil rights complaint submitted pro se by [appellant] unless the complaint ha[d] been presented first to a judge of this court, or to a district judge, who had specifically authorized the filing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mendoza v. Lynaugh“In his 38th attempt Mayfield raises no valid, justiciable issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mendoza v. Lynaugh
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.