Alton A. Jones, Jr. v. Luther D. Robinson, M.D’s Empirical Analysis
440 F.2d 249 · 1971
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Goldberg v. Kelly · Bolton v. Harris · James Covington v. David W. Harris · Bouse v. Cameron · Holiday Tours, Inc. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a lawyer to represent the accused patient is not required, but the hospital authorities may conclude that a lay representative assigned to the accused patient may be in the interest of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[B]ecause of the consequences of that [transfer] decision to patients . . . , some minimal degree of due process is required in order to make as certain as the hospital authorities reasonably can the correctness of their decision.” Jones v. Robinson, 142 U.S.App.D.C. 221 , 440 F.2d 249, 251 (1971).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eubanks v. Clarke
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.