Walker v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
733 F.2d 923 · 1984
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 56 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Hohri v. United States (1986), National Ass'n of Social Workers v. Harwood (1995)
27 federal appellate · 56 district · 4 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. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nsofar as the Clause is construed to reach ... matters [beyond speech or debate], they must be an integral part of the deliberative and communicative processes by which Members participate in committee and House proceedings with respect to the consideration and passage or rejection of proposed legislation or with respect to other matters which the Constitution places within the jurisdiction of either House.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“as work that significantly informs or influences the shaping of our nation's laws.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“regulation of the very atmosphere in which lawmaking deliberations occur,”
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.