Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
385 F.3d 503 · 2004
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Jones v. Bock (2007), Dillon v. Rogers (2010)
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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 Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Turner v. Safley
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Among other things, the rules direct inmates to write ‘briefly and clearly’ but also to ‘be very specific about your grievance or your problem.’ They state that a grievance should contain facts, not legal words or conclusions. They further direct the prisoner to ‘[t]ell us what action you want us to take to resolve your grievance or problem’....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he primary purpose of a grievance is to alert prison officials to a problem, not to provide personal notice to a particular official that he may be sued.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. May v. Segovia · Williams v. Beard“accept the complaint's well-pleaded facts as true and view them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.