Johnston v. Earle’s Empirical Analysis
245 F.2d 793 · 1957
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1984 · most notably Carlson v. Green (1980), Wheeldin v. Wheeler (1963)
16 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Bell v. Hood · Weeks v. United States · Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Burdeau v. McDowell · Fair v. Kohler Die & Specialty Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any civil action arising under any Act of Congress providing for internal revenue”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.