Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
986 federal appellate · 331 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,705 later decisions (151 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Neitzke v. Williams (1989)
986 federal appellate · 331 district · 98 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1443 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Bell v. Hood · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland
Cited together with Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc. · Runyon v. McCrary · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Tillman v. Wheaton-Haven Recreation Assn., Inc.
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 2,705 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property.”
124 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.”
29 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.