Johnson v. State of Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 12 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 199 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. (1968), United States v. Guest (1966)
87 federal appellate · 12 district · 25 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Pennsylvania v. Nelson · Turner v. City of Memphis · Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp. v. Public Service Commission
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 199 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is no longer open to question that a State may not constitutionally require segregation of public facilities.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“State-compelled segregation in a court of justice is a manifest violation of the State's duty to deny no one the equal protection of its laws”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Monday
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.