Jones v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 149 · 1986
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Hathaway v. Coughlin (1994), Gill v. Mooney (1987)
19 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Parratt v. Taylor · Kentucky v. Graham
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) all present and future deaf and hearing-impaired male inmates of the New York State Department of Correctional Services who have been, are, or will be discriminated against, solely on the basis of their disability, in receiving the rights and privileges accorded to all other inmates; and (b) all present and future deaf and hearing-impaired female inmates of the New York State Department of Correctional Services who have been, are, or will be discriminated against, solely on the basis of their disability, in receiving the rights and privileges accorded to all other inmates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clarkson v. Coughlin“(1) The prohibition against accumulating credit for unused postage; (2) The provision for free postage for five letters of one ounce or less per week, whereas free postage would not be provided for one five-ounce document in a week in which the inmate mailed nothing else; (3)The blanket refusal to pay postage for any legal brief, or any other document in a form other than a letter, even when such document weighs less than one ounce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as the state would eventually have to pay any damages awarded, the suit is barred by the eleventh amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. James
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.