Rayes v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
969 F.2d 700 · 1992
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Tabron v. Grace (1993), Montgomery v. Pinchak (2002)
21 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Denton v. Hernandez · Lewis v. Lane · Johnson v. Williams · Wiggins v. Sargent · White v. Walsh
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appointment of counsel should be given serious consideration ... if the [indigent] plaintiff has not alleged a frivolous or malicious claim and the pleadings state a prima facie case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parham v. Johnson · Tabron v. Grace
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.