Jones v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
26 F.3d 727 · 1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Johnson v. Jones (1995), Stella v. Kelley (1995)
9 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Hunter v. Bryant
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.
“ever struck, punched or kicked the plaintiff, or ever observed anyone doing so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Jones“defendants may urge only legal issues on [interlocutory] appeals,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barry v. O'Grady“not a scintilla of evidence . . . that one or more”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Jones
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.