Jefferson v. Moran’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2017
1 district · 9 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 Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Employees of Department of Public Health Welfare Missouri v. Department of Public Health & Welfare Missouri · Spencer v. Aetna Life & Casualty Insurance · Florida Prestressed Concrete Ass'n v. Florida Public Service 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This Court may answer questions of law certified to it by the Supreme Court of the United States, a Court of Appeals of the United States, or of the District of Columbia, or a United States District Court when requested by the certifying court if there are involved in any proceeding before it questions of law of this state which may be determinative of the cause then pending in the certifying court and as to which it appears to the certifying court there is no controlling precedent in the decisions of this Court.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“general applicability that implements, interprets, or prescribes law or policy or describes the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of [RIHMFC],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.