Jones v. Bombeck’s Empirical Analysis
375 F.2d 737 · 1967
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Ammlung v. City of Chester (1974), Duncan v. Nelson (1972)
26 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · O'Sullivan v. Felix · Thomas v. United States · 249 F. Supp. 923 - Gaito v. Strauss
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While entrapment may be a proper defense in a criminal action, a police officer's participation in such an activity does not constitute a constitutional violation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We can discern no reason why the statute should be tolled because the appellant was incarcerated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Hollins
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.