Jones v. Metzger’s Empirical Analysis
456 F.2d 854 · 1972
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 13 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1992 · most notably Procunier v. Martinez (1974), Johnson v. Glick (1973)
54 federal appellate · 13 district · 10 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Monroe v. Pape · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia · WILWORDING Et Al. v. SWENSON, WARDEN
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Prisoners do not lose all of their constitutional rights when they enter a penal institution. Rather they retain all of their constitutional rights except for those which must be impinged upon for security or rehabilitative purposes.” Jones v. Wittenberg, supra at 98 , cited with approval in Jones v. Metzger, supra.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even if a viable option were available to [plaintiffs] under state law, it is well-established ... that when fundamental civil rights are at issue, federal courts should hesitate to abstain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Court did not abuse its discretion in requiring defendant sheriff to make certain specified changes . . . in his deployment of manpower.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Sullivan
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.