Johnson II’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Adams v. Tennessee Department of Finance (2006), 206 F. App'x 418 - DeMerrell v. City of Cheboygan (2006)
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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al.
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the pleadings, the discovery and disclosure materials on file, and any affidavits show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Like a municipality, a government contractor cannot be held liable on a respondeat superior theory,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for a policy or custom of that private contractor .”
1 later decision 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.