Reneer v. Sewell’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 258 · 1992
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Lavado v. Keohane (1993), Young v. Selsky (1994)
17 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cabrera-Martinez v. United States · in Re Jessie McDonald · Caruth v. Pinkney · Parrish v. Johnson · LaClair v. United States
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.
“such prospective orders where a plaintiff has demonstrated a history of unsubstantial and vexatious litigation [amounting to] an abuse of the permission granted to him to proceed as a pauper in good faith under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (d)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the mail was actually read, and this action was motivated by retaliation as plaintiff alleges, such behavior by prison officials might constitute the type of arbitrary action proscribed in Parrish, 800 F.2d at 604”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lavado v. Keohane“The appointment of counsel to civil litigants is a decision left to the sound discretion of the district court, and this decision will be overturned only when the denial of counsel results in '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lavado v. Keohane
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.