Jones v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
609 F.2d 778 · 1980
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably In Re First Federal Savings And Loan Association Of Durham (1988), Stanley v. Central Intelligence Agency (1981)
44 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 10 U.S.C. § 1552 · 10 U.S.C. § 3447 · 10 U.S.C. § 681 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 1653 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Carey v. Piphus · Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District · Barrett v. United States
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allegations of the complaint, unless patently frivolous, are taken as true to avoid tackling the merits under the ruse of assessing jurisdiction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the plaintiff must have a clear right to the relief, [and] the defendant must have a clear duty to act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he test for jurisdiction is whether mandamus would be an appropriate means of relief.”
2 later decisions 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.