United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
319 U.S. 302 · 1943
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 24 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 291 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Flast v. Cohen (1968), Sierra Club v. Morton (1972)
77 federal appellate · 24 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Chicago Ry Co v. Wellman · Lord v. Veazie · Bartemeyer v. Iowa · Atherton Mills v. Johnston
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 291 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a safeguard essential to the integrity of the judicial process, and one which we have held to be indispensable to adjudication of constitutional questions by this Court.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“genuine adversary issue between the parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ven in a litigation where only private rights are involved, the judgment will not be allowed to stand where one of the parties has dominated the conduct of the suit by payment of the fees of both.”
2 later decisions 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.