Jones v. Temmer’s Empirical Analysis
57 F.3d 921 · 1995
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Dilley v. Gunn (1995), Rio Grande Silvery Minnow v. Bureau of Reclamation (2010)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. v. Bonner Mall Partnership · Preiser v. Newkirk · Anderson v. Green · Associated General Contractors of Connecticut, Inc. v. City of New Haven
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The exercise of judicial power under Art. III of the Constitution depends on the existence of a case or controversy.... [A] federal court has neither the power to render advisory opinions nor to decide questions that cannot affect the rights of litigants in the case before them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[D]efendants assert that the claims are not moot because the Colorado legislature remains free to reinstate the old law at a later date. We view this possibility as too conjectural and speculative to avoid a finding of mootness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“mootness ... resulted not from any voluntary action by plaintiffs but rather from circumstances beyond plaintiffs' control and for which they were not responsible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.