Holmes v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
738 F.2d 711 · 1984
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2015
11 federal appellate ·
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 England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Hicks v. Quaker Oats Co. · Jennings v. Caddo Parish School Board · George W. Cornwell v. Chester H. Ferguson and D. Burke Kibler, III
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“voluntarily chose to litigate all his claims in state court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schuster v. Martin
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.