Jones v. Phipps’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.3d 158 · 1994
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Cracco v. Vitran Express, Inc. (2009), Provident Savings Bank v. Popovich (1995)
40 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Houston v. Lack · Klapprott v. United States · Smith v. Barry
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“) benefit from various procedural protections not otherwise afforded to the attorney-represented litigant ... pro se litigants are not entitled to a general dispensation from the rules of procedure or court-imposed deadlines.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] jailed litigant ought to be treated neither worse, nor better, than any other party when it comes to the conduct of litigation unless some special circumstance of confinement interferes with her ability to manage legal affairs ... or the prisoner’s inability to contest entry of a default judgment was clearly beyond her control. ... Thus neither simple incarceration nor lack of legal counsel on the particular matter at issue, by themselves, provide the requisite good cause for defaulting.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the often misunderstood relationship among default judgments, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b), and appellate review--a misunderstanding usually ... involving an unsuccessful attempt to secure review of a default judgment by appealing the denial of a motion to vacate judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.