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← 74 MASSAPPCT 213 - Jones v. Boykan

Jones v. Boykan’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Answer of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Long v. Wickett · Department of Revenue v. Mason M. · Okongwu v. Stephens · 36 Mass. App. Ct. 393 - Gagnon v. Fontaine

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he correction of a clerical error does not extend the time for taking an appeal from a final judgment”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “within thirty days of the date of the entry of the judgment appealed from.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.