Williams v. Spencer

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that, in determining whether litigants are unable to pay, the court should consider resources “they have or can get” (quoting Adkins v. E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 335 U.S. 331, 339-40 (1948)
• “The question under 28 U.S.C. [§] 1915 is whether the litigant is unable to pay the costs, and the answer has consistently depended in part on [the] litigant’s actual ability to get funds from a spouse[.]”
• “The question under 28 U.S.C. [§] 1915 is whether the litigant is unable to pay the costs, and the answer has consistently depended in part on [the] litigant’s actual ability to get funds from a spouse[.]”
• “[W]hether the litigant is ‘unable to pay’ the costs [associated with initiating a lawsuit also] ... depend[s] in part on [the] litigant’s actual ability to get funds from a spouse, a parent, an adult sibling, or other next friend.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Temple v. Ellerthorpe
  D. Rhode Island· 1984-05-23· cited 348×
• Richard A. Zaun and Lois Jean Zaun v. James Dobbin
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-07-22· cited 124×
• Monti v. McKeon
  D. Connecticut· 1984-12-21· cited 53×
• Bryan v. Johnson
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-06-17· cited 47×
• Xiangyuan (Sue) Zhu v. Countrywide Realty Co.
  D. Kansas· 2001-06-28· cited 11×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
  Supreme Court· 1969-02-24· cited 3,241×
• Adkins v. E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1948-12-20· cited 3,220×
• Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation
  Supreme Court· 1978-10-02· cited 761×
• Graham v. Riddle
  Fourth Circuit· 1977-04-21· cited 72×
• United States v. John E. Kelly
  Seventh Circuit· 1972-11-27· cited 35×
• Braden v. Estelle
  S.D. Texas· 1977-03-17· cited 34×
• United States v. Robert Nevelle Stone
  Fourth Circuit· 1962-01-25· cited 29×
• Baughman v. Freienmuth
  Fourth Circuit· 1973-05-17· cited 27×
• Nitzberg v. Parks
  Fourth Circuit· 1975-04-14· cited 25×
• Melvin Perkins v. Samuel Cingliano, Sr
  Fourth Circuit· 1961-11-13· cited 13×
• Roy v. Louisville N. O. & T. R. Co.
  U.S. Circuit Court· 1888-03-07· cited 5×
• Lewis v. Mittricker
  Eighth Circuit· 1942-03-02· cited 4×
• Carter v. Kurn
  Eighth Circuit· 1941-05-15· cited 3×
• Ferguson v. Dent
  W.D. Tennessee· 1883-03-21· cited 3×