Elizabeth B. Johnson v. Charles B. MacCoy’s Empirical Analysis
278 F.2d 37 · 1960
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably William J. Bauers, Jr. v. Herbert T. Heisel, Jr (1966), 202 F. Supp. 624 - Rhodes v. Houston (1962)
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Snowden v. Hughes · Bradley v. Fisher · Pargoud v. United States · Kenney v. Fox · Ryan v. Scoggin
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.
“At best, the law in California as to whether a municipal court judge has jurisdiction to issue a complaint and warrant upon a showing made by a private citizen, and not a prosecutive agency, ■ is somewhat, but not totally, obscure. We find no ease squarely in point.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here we interpret the California Penal and Government Codes to authorize the district attorney to present or lay a complaint before a magistrate as to a possible felony, but not to exclude or prohibit the same act when performed by a private citizen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.