Jones v. Helms’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 42 district · 162 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 358 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Zobel v. Williams (1982), Attorney General of New York v. Soto-Lopez (1986)
72 federal appellate · 42 district · 162 state decisions — followed in 28 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
reviewedHelms v. Jones (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Shapiro v. Thompson · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Sosna v. Iowa · Dunn v. Blumstein · Shelton v. Tucker
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 358 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person has been convicted of a crime within a State.”); Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520 , 545-46, 99 S.Ct. 1861 , 1877, 60 L.Ed.2d 447 (1979) (”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is clearly a distinction between one who . . . leaves the state after committing a crime, resulting in the tolling of the statute of limitations during his absence, and one who has committed no crime but is deprived of a government benefit merely because he exercises his right to travel to another state. In the former circumstance, the state has an interest in assuring that the defendant is available locally not only to enhance the possibility of detection but also to avoid the burdens of extradition proceedings, should he be charged, his whereabouts become known, and he refuses to return voluntarily.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The Equal Protection Clause provides a basis for challenging legislative classifications that treat one group of persons as inferior or superior to others, and for contending that general rules are being applied in an arbitrary or discriminatory way. That portion of the Georgia statute at issue in this case applies equally to all parents residing in Georgia; nothing in appellee's argument or in the record suggests that the statute has been enforced against appellee any differently than it would be enforced against anyone else who engaged in the same conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Clark
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.