Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably In re WellPoint, Inc. Out-of-Network "UCR" Rates Litigation (2011), 417 F. Supp. 2d 424 - Harrison v. Metropolitan Life Insurance (2006)
13 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · Varity Corporation v. Howe · Montana v. Clark · Charles McDaniel v. The Chevron Corporation
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Five factors are taken into account to assess the propriety of a motion for leave to amend: bad faith, undue delay, prejudice to the opposing party, futility of amendment, and whether the plaintiff has previously amended the complaint.”
3 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.