Johnson v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.2d 108 · 1948
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably MacDougall v. Green (1948), South v. Peters (1950)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1344
Relies on Smith v. Allwright · United States v. Gradwell · Smith v. Vulcan Iron Works · Giles v. Harris · United States v. Bathgate
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 1344. Election disputes The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action to recover possession of any office, except that of elector of President or Vice President, United States Senator, Representative in or delegate to Congress, or member of a state legislature, authorized by law to be commenced, wherein it appears that the sole question touching the title to office arises out of denial of the right to vote, to any citizen offering to vote, on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. The jurisdiction under this section shall extend only so far as to determine the rights of the parties to office by reason of the denial of the right, guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and secured by any law, to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in all the States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keyes v. Gunn“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Texas Statutes afford machinery for such a contest as part of their provision for both party nominations and final elections,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hubbard v. Ammerman
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.