Jones v. Hildebrant’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 39 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Carey v. Piphus (1978), Bell v. City of Milwaukee (1984)
52 federal appellate · 39 district · 21 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Monroe v. Pape · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Screws v. United States
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would not seem logically to be subject to a damages limitation contained in the statute permitting survivors to recover for wrongs done to property interests of theirs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is clear that by enacting § 1983, Congress intended to create a federal right of action separate and independent from any remedies afforded under state law. State law may be relevant where a trial court is seeking to fix a remedy under § 1983, but it is by no means clear that state law may serve as a limitation on recovery where the remedy provided under state law is inadequate to implement the purposes under § 1983. Thus ‘both federal and state rules may be utilized, whichever better serves the policies expressed in the federal statutes.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]lthough the question whether the personal representatives' action could be maintained under Sec. 1983 was not before the Court, it did not disapprove of such actions in remanding the case to the lower courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.