Long v. Shillinger’s Empirical Analysis
927 F.2d 525 · 1991
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Farmer v. Haas (1993), Jackson v. County of McLean (1992)
21 federal appellate · 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 Carey v. Piphus · Zinermon v. Burch · Cuyler v. Adams · Michigan v. Doran · Maclin v. Freake
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'unless it would result in fundamental unfairness impinging on due process rights.' " Long v. Shillinger, 927 F.2d 525 , 527 (10th Cir.1991)(quoting Maclin v. Freake, 650 F.2d 885 , 886 (7th Cir.1981)). We have stated that in deciding whether to appoint counsel, "the district court should consider a variety of factors, including the merits of the litigant's claims, the nature of the factual issues raised in the claims, the litigant's ability to present his claims, and the complexity of the legal issues raised by the claims.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[T]he district court has broad discretion to appoint counsel ... and its denial of counsel will not be overturned unless it would result in fundamental unfairness impinging on due process rights.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the extradition itself was justified, even though the procedures used to accomplish it were deficient ..., [a] plaintiff cannot recover for any injury caused by the extradition; he can [however] recover for any injury, such as emotional distress, caused by the deprivation of due process itself.”
1 later decision 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.