Jones v. McKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
833 F.2d 335 · 1987
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 13 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. (1989), Bolden 90-1478 v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority 90-1435 (1991)
25 federal appellate · 13 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Terry v. Ohio · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United States v. Jacobsen · New Jersey v. T. L. O. · United States Civil Service Commission v. National Ass'n of Letter Carriers
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“repeated incidents of bizarre or dangerous drug-related behavior by drivers and attendants while on duty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile the safety concern may be somewhat greater for a school bus driver, it is still quite significant in the case of an employee who is responsible for supervising, attending and carrying handicapped children.” Id. at 340 . 33 . Id. at 339 . The School System did not contest that any compulsory urinalysis testing, in order to be lawful, had”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a brief question or two' " about motorist's residence). As the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has observed: "[S]uch tests may provide Government officials with a periscope through which they can peer into an individual's behavior in her private life, even in her own home.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.