Spears v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• refusal to appoint counsel and dismissal of case upheld where absence of diversity and federal question jurisdiction was clear

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tabron v. Grace
  Third Circuit· 1993-10-05· cited 1,089×
• Jerome MacLin v. Dr. Freake
  Seventh Circuit· 1981-06-03· cited 335×
• Boyce v. Alizaduh
  Fourth Circuit· 1979-04-02· cited 158×
• 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×
• Bowman v. White
  Fourth Circuit· 1968-01-08· cited 107×
• Williams v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1969-01-14· cited 85×
• Aljoe Poindexter v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-06-26· cited 74×
• Human Engineering Institute v. Commissioner
  U.S. Tax Court· 1973-10-18· cited 73×
• Barker v. Hardway
  S.D. West Virginia· 1968-04-10· cited 64×
• Mann v. Leeke
  D. South Carolina· 1974-11-06· cited 9×
• United States v. $27,000.00, More or Less
  S.D. West Virginia· 1994-10-11· cited 8×
• Martin v. Cuny
  D. Colorado· 1995-06-15· cited 2×
• Unnamed case
  First Circuit· 1968-01-08· cited 1×

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Hoffman v. Blaski
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-13· cited 1,026×
• United States v. Muniz
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-17· cited 787×
• Edward J. Dillon v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1962-08-22· cited 100×
• United States ex rel. Gardner v. Madden
  Ninth Circuit· 1965-11-03· cited 96×
• Roberts Ex Rel. Roberts v. Gale
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1964-12-15· cited 93×
• Robert L. Cole v. Lavern Smith, Bernard Danner and Allen Vogel
  Eighth Circuit· 1965-05-26· cited 64×
• Bernard E. Laclair v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 1967-01-11· cited 63×
• Robert E. Jones v. Hugh F. Rivers, Donald Clemmer
  Fourth Circuit· 1964-11-04· cited 57×
• St. Clair E. Miller v. Hyman Pleasure, M.D., as Superintendent of Middletown State Hospital, Middletown, New York
  Second Circuit· 1961-11-21· cited 51×
• Pacific National Insurance Company v. Transport Insurance Company
  Eighth Circuit· 1965-02-12· cited 49×
• Edmond C. Fletcher v. Courtney R. Young and Eleanor M. Young, His Wife
  Fourth Circuit· 1955-04-01· cited 41×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Willis S. Marshall, Relator-Appellee v. Walter H. Wilkins, Warden of Attica State Prison, Attica, New York
  Second Circuit· 1964-11-10· cited 30×
• West Virginia v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York
  S.D. West Virginia· 1967-01-07· cited 29×
• Benbow v. Wolf. Wolf v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1954-06-30· cited 27×
• Kregger v. Posner
  E.D. Michigan· 1966-01-03· cited 25×
• Kelly Moss v. M. W. Thomas, W. L. (Bill) Moore, William S. Larkins, Dorris L. Robertson, and Bymal Haywood Dixon
  Sixth Circuit· 1962-03-06· cited 24×
• Urbano v. Sondern
  D. Connecticut· 1966-06-27· cited 23×
• John Reid v. Phillip Charney and Howard Lee
  Sixth Circuit· 1956-06-25· cited 20×
• De Maris v. United States
  S.D. Indiana· 1960-09-23· cited 15×