Kiser v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1999
1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 38 U.S.C. § 101 (Agent Orange Act of 1991) · 38 U.S.C. § 3103
Relies on Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co. · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Johnson v. Robison
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there exist contingencies that must occur before an issue is actually joined by the parties, then the case will not be ripe until those contingencies occur.”
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.