William Watts v. Mark Kidman

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that courts must be careful stewards of the limited resource of volunteer lawyers and may consider the merit of plaintiff's claims when determining whether to recruit counsel
• noting that the Court may consider all \available information and the judge's experience to assess the importance and potential merits of the case and to assign priority accordingly.\ (cleaned up)
• explaining that courts must be careful stewards of the limited resource of volunteer lawyers
• explaining that courts must be careful stewards of the limited resource of volunteer lawyers
• “the recruitment of counsel is unwarranted if the plaintiff’s chances of success are extremely slim”
• a court may consider the strength of a prose litigant’s case when deciding whether to recruit counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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Cites

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

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
• Mallard v. United States Dist. Court for Southern Dist. of Iowa
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-01· cited 4,814×
• Pruitt v. Mote
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-10-03· cited 2,834×
• Martin v. Franklin Capital Corp.
  Supreme Court· 2005-12-07· cited 2,624×
• Frederick C. Wilborn v. Antonio Escalderon and Ruth Rushen
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-07-03· cited 1,949×
• Bennie Cooper v. A. Sargenti Co., Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1989-06-01· cited 1,258×
• Eduardo Navejar v. Akinola Iyiola
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-05-29· cited 601×
• Tabron v. Grace
  Third Circuit· 1993-10-05· cited 568×
• Shawn Eagan v. Michael Dempsey
  Seventh Circuit· 2021-02-09· cited 550×
• Jay Dee Jackson v. County of McLean Steve Brenin, Gary Plonse, and David Goldberg
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-01-15· cited 469×
• Steven M. Desrosiers v. John J. Moran
  First Circuit· 1991-11-15· cited 394×
• Jerome MacLin v. Dr. Freake
  Seventh Circuit· 1981-06-03· cited 335×
• Dee Farmer v. Richard Haas, Edward J. Brennan, and L.E. Dubois
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-04-02· cited 316×
• James Pennewell v. James Parish
  Seventh Circuit· 2019-05-03· cited 299×
• Fredrick Walker v. Timothy Price
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-08-20· cited 238×
• Pickett v. Chi. Transit Auth.
  Seventh Circuit· 2019-07-17· cited 229×
• McCaa v. Hamilton
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-06-27· cited 214×
• Reginald Lacroix Poole v. Larry Lambert
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-06-19· cited 189×
• Joseph Herbert Mars v. Jack A. Hanberry
  Sixth Circuit· 1985-01-18· cited 118×