Johnson v. Mississippi’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
155 federal appellate · 12 district · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 401 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably International Union, United Mine Workers v. Bagwell (1994), Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (2002)
155 federal appellate · 12 district · 136 state decisions — followed in 26 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 Illinois v. Allen · In re Oliver · Bloom v. Illinois · Cooke v. United States · Mayberry v. Pennsylvania
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 401 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Trial before 'an unbiased judge' is essential to due process.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)nstant action may be necessary where the misbehavior is in the presence of the judge and is known to him, and where immediate corrective steps are needed to restore order and maintain the dignity and authority of the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“immediately prior to the adjudication of contempt [been] a defendant in one of petitioner's civil rights suits.”
2 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.