J. Edward Jones v. Evelyn S. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 1996 · most notably Waters v. Wisconsin Steel Works of International Harvester Co. (1970), McCord v. Bailey (1980)
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Relies on Pierson v. Ray · United States v. Price · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · O'Sullivan v. Felix · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Lawyers who are not also parties in interest and are engaged in private litigation on behalf of clients do not act under color of state law within the meaning of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . Every litigant is entitled to a zealous advocate in the presentation of his matters before the court. The state merely provides a forum for the litigants and although lawyers are considered‘officers of the court,’ they are not officers of the state within the meaning of the Civil Rights Act.”
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.