Carroll v. Gross’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 392 · 1993
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Barbara v. New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (1996), Jamaal Ali Bilal v. Scott Driver (2001)
5 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Neitzke v. Williams · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Denton v. Hernandez · Dennis v. Sparks · Slavin v. Curry
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.
“A case is frivolous for section 1915(d) [now section 1915(e)(2)(B)(i)] when it appears the plaintiff 'has little or no chance of success.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.