Whitlock v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.3d 380 · 1998
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Payton v. County of Kane (2002), Walters v. Edgar (1998)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Wolff v. McDonnell · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Heck v. Humphrey · Bell v. Hood
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] properly certified class has a legal status separate from and independent of the interest asserted by the named plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here a class has been properly certified, the mootness of the named plaintiff's individual claim does not render the class action moot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hodgkins v. Peterson“the opportunity for the Adjustment Committee to evaluate the credibility and demeanor of the inmate's defense witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hamid v. Gonzales
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.