Jones v. Taber’s Empirical Analysis
648 F.2d 1201 · 1981
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Town of Newton v. Rumery (1987), Mardan Corporation v. Cgc Music Ltd (1986)
30 federal appellate · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · Garrett v. Co · Garrett v. Moore-McCormack Co.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“release of claims under [42 U.S.C.] section 1983 is valid only if ... voluntary, deliberate, and informed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“understood the nature of whatever statutory and common-law remedies he waived by the release.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“On the night of July 3, 1976, Jones was taken from his cell, stripped, gagged, bound, chained to a wall, hosed with cold water and beaten with a night stick. The incident lasted 3 to 5 hours. He was then replaced in a special segregation facility and held there for nineteen days until, on July 22, he was escorted without notice to an interview room to meet with a deputy county counsel and a claims adjuster. The subject of the meeting was whether or not Jones would accept $500 for a release in favor of the county and the individual defendants for all claims arising from the beating and mistreatment on the night of July 3. At the conclusion of the meeting Jones accepted the release and executed the documents presented to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Avalos v. Baca
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.