Johnson v. Bollinger’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 153 N.C. App. 25 - Boyce & Isley, PLLC v. Cooper (2002), First Federal Bank v. Aldridge (2013)
3 federal appellate · 65 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Sutton v. Duke · White v. White · Stanback v. Stanback · Dickens v. Puryear
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he initial determination of whether conduct is extreme and outrageous is a question of law for the court: 'If the court determines that it may reasonably be so regarded, then it is for the jury to decide whether, under the facts of a particular case, defendants' conduct ... was in fact extreme and outrageous.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) when on its face the complaint reveals no law that supports plaintiff's claim; (2) when on its face the complaint reveals the absence of fact sufficient to make a good claim; and (3) when some fact disclosed in the complaint necessarily defeats plaintiff's claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“rough language, and ... occasional acts that are ... inconsiderate and unkind,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gooden v. Town of Clarkton Nc a Wa Tommy Baysden Gooden · Robert Allen Gooden v. Town of Clarkton, Nc, a Municipal Corporation Linda Revels Steve Prince Lawrence McDougald Former Commissioners, Town of Clarkton Wade Tart Roy Butler, Cathy McEwen Present Commissioners, Town of Clarkton W.A. Hall, Building Inspector, Town of Clarkton Ralph Smith, Chief of Police, Town of Clarkton Dan Meshaw, Individually and as Mayor, Town of Clarkton Tommy Baysden, and Their Successors in Office, Robert Allen Gooden v. W.A. Hall, Building Inspector, Town of Clarkton, North Carolina, and Town of Clarkton, Nc, a Municipal Corporation Linda Revels Steve Prince, Lawrence McDougald Former Commissioners, Town of Clarkton Wade Tart Roy Butler Cathy McEwen Present Commissioners, Town of Clarkton Dan Meshaw, Individually and as Mayor, Town of Clarkton Tommy Baysden, and Their Successors in Office Ralph Smith, Chief of Police, Town of Clarkton
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.