Jones v. Board of Commissioners’s Empirical Analysis
737 F.2d 996 · 1984
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Scinto v. Stamm (1993), Whittle v. United States (1993)
11 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Goldberg v. Kelly · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Stanley v. Illinois · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n adopting bar admission requirements, including the bar examination, the state in effect adopts a rebuttable presumption of incompetence, affords applicants five opportunities to rebut the presumption by passing the bar examination, and then essentially adopts as fact as to those individuals who fail the examination five times what it formerly presumed, their incompetency to practice law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“D. Limitation on Examinations. The number of times and applicant may be examined for admission to the Alabama State Bar shall be unlimited. (Section D amended effective April 28, 1993; and January 6, 1994) IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this amendment be effective immediately.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“has never held that the right to pursue a particular occupation is a fundamental right,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Abbott
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.