Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.2d 355 · 1929
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 1980
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 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
Relies on Berger v. United States · Benedict v. Seiberling · United States v. Ford · United States v. Hill
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘To avoid abuses, the law requires that the affidavit be of legal sufficiency. That is, that the charge be of personal bias or prejudice, that the facts and reasons for the charge be set out and give fair support to the accusation, and that upon its face the affidavit presents evidence of good faith.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““2. Affiant states that the Honorable Charles E. Woodward, before whom the above action is to be tried or heard, has a personal bias or prejudice in favor of the defendants herein, particularly the City of Chicago, and the facts upon which affiant bases said allegation of prejudice are as follows: “3. The government of the defendant, City of Chicago, is controlled by the Democratic Party, one of whose leaders and controlling persons is Edward J. Kelly, Mayor of the City of Chicago; that the milk ordinance involved in this case was passed during the term of said Edward J. Kelly as Mayor of the City of Chicago and is commonly called, and in fact is so designated by the defendant members of the Board of Health of the City of Chicago and by the City of Chicago itself in the published copies of said ordinance,- as the “Mayor Kelly Milk Ordinance” and said members of the Board of Health are appointed by and under the domination, direction, influence and control of said Edward J. Kelly. “4. That said Edward J. Kelly is candidate for re-election as Mayor of the City of Chicago, at the election to be held April 4, 1939 in said City and is the candidate of the Democratic Party for said office; and controls and dominates all of the defendants herein and all of the attorneys of said defendants; and affiant was informed on or about the 11th day of March, 1939, and verily believes, that persons and firms financially interested in preventing the sale and distribution of milk in paper contai”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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