Johnson v. Yellow Cab Transit Co.’s Empirical Analysis
321 U.S. 383 · 1944
Citation profile
130 federal appellate · 44 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 375 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Precision Instrument Mfg Co v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery Co (1945), Hostetter v. Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp. (1964)
130 federal appellate · 44 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJohnson v. Yellow Cab Transit Co. (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Olmstead v. United States · Schneiderman v. United States · International News Service v. Associated Press · Keystone Driller Co. v. General Excavator Co. · Puerto Rico v. Shell Co.
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 375 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that make for the advancement of right and justice.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not mean that courts must always permit a defendant wrongdoer to retain the profits of his wrongdoing merely because the plaintiff himself is possibly guilty of transgressing the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“equity does not demand that its suitors shall have led blameless lives,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.