Purvis v. Ponte’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 822 · 1991
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Strickler v. Waters (1993), Johnson v. Rodriguez (1991)
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 Haines v. Kerner · Neitzke v. Williams · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Meachum v. Fano · Rhodes v. Chapman
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'practical protections' " required by Neitzke ). 9 The judgment of the district court is affirmed. 1 Section 1915(d) provides, in pertinent part: "The court ... may dismiss the case if the allegation of poverty is untrue, or if satisfied that the action is frivolous or malicious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the hard core sense described in Neitzke,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cassell v. Osborn
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.