Mrs. Vesta G. Johnston v. Calvin S. Byrd and Ray D. Bridges’s Empirical Analysis
354 F.2d 982 · 1965
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Bass v. International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (1980), Hines v. Cenla Community Action Committee, Inc. (1973)
17 federal appellate · 1 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 Bell v. Hood · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Pierre v. Jordan · First Nat. Bank of Mobile v. Burch
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“State law determines that question, not federal law. A question of federal law is often “lurking in the background” of every case. In order to invoke the jurisdiction of a federal court there must be “a substantial claim founded ‘directly’ upon federal law.” 354 F.2d at 984”
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.