Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Hampton v. Hobbs (1997), In re Paoli Railroad Yard PCB Litigation (2000)
6 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Bounds v. Smith · Boddie v. Connecticut · Wilson v. Seiter
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e think it is clear, then, that a district court may assess costs against an unsuccessful in forma pauperis litigant whether or not the claim was frivolous or simply unmerited”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“subject to a prompt challenge and showing by such prisoner-plaintiffs that they are incapable, as a practical matter and as a matter of equity, of paying such costs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“costs at the conclusion of the suit or action as in other cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.