Johnson v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1987
1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 302 (§ 2 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia · Edwards v. People of State of California · Joseph Moss v. Albert H. Hornig · Ortega v. Ragen · Adams v. City of Park Ridge
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant [Illinois’ Attorney General], who seeks dismissal, has some duties under the welfare laws but those problems are not relevant to the problem presented here. . . . We grant the motion to dismiss as to defendant [Attorney General], p. 1168.”
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.