Joyce v. Mavromatis’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 56 · 1986
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably LRL Properties v. Portage Metro Housing Authority (1995), Thornton
48 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Hudson v. Palmer · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Vicory v. Walton
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conflating all persons not injured into a preferred class receiving better treatment”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The First Amendment aecess-to-the-courts claim does not state a cause of action either. The plaintiff has the right under state law to file her damage suit and to offer proof about the accident and the al leged destruction of relevant evidence. If she is able to prove that the police chiefs son and his confederates undertook to destroy evidence of the son’s negligence as a driver, there is no reason to believe that an Ohio court and jury would be unavailable and would not do justice between the parties. Rather than having denied access, the defendants have opened themselves to punitive damages and converted a small claims matter into a significant ease, albeit not a federal case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he equal protection argument fails here because the wrong is not alleged to be directed toward an individual as a member of a class or group singled out for discriminatory treatment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Batra
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.