Johnson v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
278 F.2d 245 · 1960
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1988
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Burlington County Bridge Commission v. Driscoll · Story v. Rives · Hicks v. Reid · Gould v. Green · Denson v. Board of Commissioners
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each prisoner convicted of an offense against the United States and confined in a penal or correctional institution . shall be entitled to a deduction [for good time] from the term of his sentence . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dobbs v. Neverson
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.