Johnson v. Manson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 221 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 228 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Winslow v. Lewis-Shepard, Inc. (1989), Caltabiano v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1989)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 221 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
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Bell v. Wolfish · McMann v. Richardson · Baker v. McCollan · Bordenkircher v. Hayes
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 228 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where statutory language is clearly expressed . . . courts must apply the legislative enactment according to the plain terms and cannot read into the terms of a statute something which manifestly is not there in order to reach what the court thinks would be a just result.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“If the language of the statute is clear and unambiguous, it is assumed that the words themselves express the intention of the legislature and there is no room for judicial construction.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“When legislation contains a specific definition, the courts are bound to accept that definition.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.