Johnson v. Harder’s Empirical Analysis
438 F.2d 7 · 1971
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 10 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Goldberg v. Kelly · Dandridge v. Williams · Shapiro v. Thompson · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Rosado v. Wyman
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[sjince welfare cases by their very nature involve people at a bare subsistence level, disputes over the correct amounts payable are treated not merely as involving property rights, but some sort of right to exist in society, a personal right under the Stone \_Hague] formula, [emphasis added].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. Neither, of course, are three judges required as to appellant’s claim that the state regulation conflicts with the federal provisions which, by virtue of the Supremacy Clause, are controlling.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one of personal liberty, not dependent for its existence upon the infringement of property rights,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No 169 · Almenares v. Wyman
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.