Johnson v. Butler Bros.’s Empirical Analysis
162 F.2d 87 · 1947
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2009 · most notably Breuer v. Jim's Concrete of Brevard, Inc. (2003), Federal Deposit Insurance v. Santiago Plaza (1979)
34 federal appellate · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 41 · 29 U.S.C. § 216
Relies on Williams v. Jacksonville Terminal Co. · Metropolitan Casualty Insurance v. Stevens · State ex rel. St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway Co. v. Taylor · Robertson v. Argus Hosiery Mills, Inc. · Albi v. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be maintained in any court of competent jurisdiction.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o maintain an action or suit may mean to commence or institute it; the term imports the existence of a cause of action.”
5 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.