Johnson v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
268 F.2d 803 · 1959
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Basista v. Weir (1965), Slotnick v. Staviskey (1977)
20 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Bottone v. Lindsley · Dean v. Kirkland · Miles v. Armstrong · Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. Commissioner
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“«<* * * [T]o make out a cause of action under the Civil Rights Statutes, the state court proceedings must have been a complete nullity, with a purpose to deprive a person of his property without due process of law. * * * ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“She also complains that defendants conspired . . .. Her factual allegations do not support her conclusory statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sparkman v. McFarlin
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.