Johnson v. Robison’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
896 federal appellate · 333 district · 206 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,435 later decisions (102 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Califano v. Sanders (1977), Weinberger v. Salfi (1975)
896 federal appellate · 333 district · 206 state decisions — followed in 24 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 Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Udall v. Tallman · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Shapiro v. Thompson · Wisconsin v. Yoder
Cited together with Weinberger v. Salfi · Mathews v. Eldridge · Califano v. Sanders · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Bolling v. Sharpe
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 2,435 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the decisions of the Administrator on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans’ Administration providing benefits for veterans and their dependents or survivors shall be final and conclusive and no other official or any court of the United States shall have power or jurisdiction to review any such decision by an action in the nature of mandamus or otherwise.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A decision of law or fact 'under' a statute is made by the Administrator in the interpretation or application of a particular provision of the statute to a particular set of facts.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'different treatment [to] be accorded to persons placed by a statute into different classes on the basis of criteria wholly unrelated to the objective of that statute.'”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.