Cameron v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
380 federal appellate · 107 district · 226 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,322 later decisions (58 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Younger v. Harris (1971), Broadrick v. Oklahoma (1973)
380 federal appellate · 107 district · 226 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Dombrowski v. Pfister
Cited together with Dombrowski v. Pfister · Zwickler v. Koota · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Younger v. Harris · Cox v. State of Louisiana
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 1,322 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Federal interference with a State’s good-faith administration of its criminal laws ‘is peculiarly inconsistent with our federal framework’ and a showing of ‘special circumstances’ beyond the injury incidental to every proceeding brought lawfully and in good faith is requisite to a finding of irreparable injury sufficient to justify the extraordinary remedy of an injunction.””
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burhoe v. Byrne · Burhoe v. Byrne“. . . not a case in which '. . . a federal court of equity by withdrawing the determination of guilt from the state courts could rightly afford [appellants] any protection which they could not secure by prompt trial and appeal pursued to this Court.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly and precisely delineates its reach in words of common understanding,”
15 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.