Jones v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
957 F.2d 260 · 1992
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. Bell (1993), United States v. Campbell (1999)
30 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Singleton v. Wulff · Quern v. Jordan · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Keeble v. United States
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s with all applications of the law-of-the-case doctrine, the trial court may consider those issues not decided expressly or impliedly by the appellate court or a previous trial court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“When the reviewing court, in its mandate, prescribes that a court shall proceed in accordance with the opinion of the reviewing court, it incorporates its opinion into its mandate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“specific application of the law of the case doctrine”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.