Evans v. Croom

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• approving use of prior six months’ deposits as base for calculating reasonable partial filing fee
• substantially upholding a similar district court order for flexibly-administered modest partial payment of court costs by prisoners suing in forma pauperis
• “A prisoner is assured of the necessities of life, housing, food, clothing and medical care at state expense. His financial needs are thus not similar to those of a person in ordinary life.”
• “A prisoner is assured of the necessities of life, housing, food, clothing and medical care at state expense. His financial needs are thus not similar to those of a person in ordinary life.”
• monetary amount permissible factor in offense severity rating
• witness was personally hostile to defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

54 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Melvin P. Deutsch v. United States
  Third Circuit· 1995-10-12· cited 687×
• Cochran v. Morris
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-01-26· cited 462×
• Lee Hampton v. Ron Hobbs
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-02-13· cited 459×
• Olivares v. Marshall
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-06-26· cited 275×
• Conklin Wallace v. Robert Christensen
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-10-23· cited 182×
• James Barrett v. United States
  First Circuit· 1992-06-08· cited 141×
• Ronald Weaver Leo McKaye Morris Martin v. Raymond Toombs Robert Brown, Jr. Donald Mason Robert Mulvaney Ted Strassburg
  Sixth Circuit· 1991-11-06· cited 111×
• Robert Louis Farkas v. United States of America, United States Parole Commission
  Sixth Circuit· 1984-09-20· cited 88×
• Jerry Larry Collier v. Sergeant Tatum, Officer
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-12-20· cited 86×
• Luke v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-11-12· cited 83×
• United States v. Alonzo Day
  Eighth Circuit· 1991-11-21· cited 82×
• In Re Jewell Williamson
  Eighth Circuit· 1986-03-31· cited 73×
• In Re Lawrence Epps
  Second Circuit· 1989-11-01· cited 62×
• Donald Sylvester Jones v. Charles H. Zimmerman, Superintendent, and Leroy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General of Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 1985-01-16· cited 58×
• James Dean Walker v. A.L. Lockhart, Superintendent of the Arkansas Department of Corrections
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-06-10· cited 53×
• Dennis Laverne English v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1993-07-13· cited 49×
• Nasim v. Warden, Maryland House of Correction
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-09-15· cited 48×
• Bobby Ray Jones v. U.S. Bureau of Prisons, C.A. Turner, Warden, McFp U.S. Parole Commission
  Eighth Circuit· 1990-05-17· cited 47×
• United States v. Alvin Reed Long Crow
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-10-13· cited 46×
• Oss Smith, Jr. v. Alex Martinez and W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-06-06· cited 41×