Anderson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2015 · most notably Carriger v. Stewart (1997), Educational Testing Services v. Katzman (1986)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Four members of the Court would reverse. Four members of the Court would dismiss the writ as improvidently granted. Consequently, the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit remains in effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Biggers v. Neil
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.