Jones v. Blanas’s Empirical Analysis
393 F.3d 918 · 2004
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 11 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 256 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Clouthier v. County of Contra Costa (2010), Crittenden v. Ayers (2010)
32 federal appellate · 11 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1746 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Bell v. Wolfish · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Rhodes v. Chapman
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 256 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If confinement of a sexually violent predator is civil for the purposes of evaluation under the Ex Post Facto clause, that confinement is civil for the purposes of defining the rights to which the detainee is entitled while confined [in a treatment facility]. Civil status means civil status, with all the Fourteenth Amendment rights that accompany it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]onsider as evidence in his opposition to summary judgment all of [the plaintiff’s] contentions offered in motions and pleadings, where such contentions are based on personal knowledge and set forth facts that would be admissible in evidence, and where [the plaintiff] attested under penalty of perjury that the contents of the motions or pleadings are true and correct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“make[s] a factual determination that the contradiction was actually a 'sham' ”). 8 . Love also argues that the district court abused its discretion granting summary judgment in the face of requests for additional discovery. Love describes in detail the discovery that he wished to pursue, none of which relates to whether or not the alleged violations impacted U.S. foreign commerce or injured Love in any way. Because this”
1 later decision 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.