Davis v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.3d 444 · 1996
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Reynolds v. Dormire (2011), Munson v. Norris (2006)
8 federal appellate · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Path-Science Laboratories, Inc. v. Greene County Hospital · Cortes-Quinones v. Jimenez-Nettleship
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Indigent civil litigants do not have a constitutional or statutory right to appointed counsel.” .... The trial court has broad discretion to decide whether both the plaintiff and the court will benefit from the appointment of counsel, taking into account the factual and legal complexity of the case, the presence or absence of conflicting testimony, and the plaintiffs ability to investigate the facts and present his claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indigent civil litigants do not have a constitutional or statutory right to appointed counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wheeler v. Burgum
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.