Jones v. Flowers’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2024
15 state decisions
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on West v. Atkins · Maher v. Gagne · John Aldens v. Maine · City of Riverside v. Rivera · Jones v. Flowers
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the mandate in Norman I was a final resolution of the matter that was the subject of the appeal, here, by contrast, the court's mandate issued on September 25, 2006, simply remanded the case for further "proceedings on relief" consistent with the Supreme Court's decision [ Jones v. Flowers , 547 U.S. 220 , 126 S.Ct. 1708 , 164 L.Ed.2d 415 (2006) ]. A final judgment triggering Rule 54(e) did not occur until the circuit court issued its order on December 21, 2006, that denied the Commissioner's request to reopen the question of liability, ordered that Jones be given his house back, denied Jones his requested attorney's fees, and ordered the clerk to close the case. Only upon this final resolution of the respective parties' rights was a motion for attorney's fees appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Worsham v. Day“[a] final judgment under Ark. R. Civ. P. 54(a) is 'one that dismisses the parties, discharges them from the action, or concludes their rights to the subject matter in controversy.' Looney v. Looney , 336 Ark. 542 , 547-48, 986 S.W.2d 858 , 861 (1999) (quoting McGann v. Pine Bluff Police Dep't , 334 Ark. 352 , 355, 974 S.W.2d 462 , 463 (1998) ); see also Petrus v. Nature Conservancy , 330 Ark. 722 , 957 S.W.2d 688 (1997). This court has consistently interpreted Ark. R. Civ. P. 54(e) to be applicable only upon an entry of judgment that finally concludes the controversy for which attorney's fees are sought. See, e.g. , Crawford County v. Jones , 365 Ark. 585 , 232 S.W.3d 433 (2006) ; State Auto Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Swaim , 338 Ark. 49 , 991 S.W.2d 555 (1999)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Worsham v. Day
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.