Thompson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Vuitton Fils v. Carousel Handbags (1979), Quinter v. Volkswagen of America (1982)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 401
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Shoup Voting Machine Corp. v. Datamedia Computer Service, Inc.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“correspondence addressed to plaintiff would be opened only by plaintiff, though in the presence of his housing unit officer. The terms of the consent order apparently had been violated by, inter alia, Charles Batdorf,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“have actual knowledge of the order and ... 'either abet the defendant or ... be legally identified with him.'”
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.