Johnson v. Mississippi’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
118 federal appellate · 26 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 407 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Cheffer v. Reno (1995), Twyman v. Crisp (1978)
118 federal appellate · 26 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Georgia v. Rachel · City of Greenwood v. Peacock · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co.
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 407 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“providing for specific civil rights stated in terms of racial equality.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any law providing for the equal civil rights of citizens of the United States”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The line between Rachel and Peacock is that between “prosecutions in which the conduct necessary to constitute the state offense is specifically protected by a federal equal rights statute under the circumstances alleged by the petitioner, and prosecutions where the only grounds for removal is that the charge is false and motivated by a desire to discourage the petitioner from exercising or to penalize him for having exercised a federal right.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.