Robinson v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.3d 905 · 1998
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Warshak (2010), United States v. Pugh (2005)
34 federal appellate ·
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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Heck v. Humphrey · Laws v. United Missouri Bank · Enertech Electrical, Inc. v. Mahoning County Commissioners
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Heck holding applies equally to an action brought under Bivens”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Issues which were raised in the district court, yet not raised on appeal, are considered abandoned and not reviewable on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“declared invalid or otherwise impugned as set forth in Heck.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Donald Ruff
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.