Ruben H. Johnson v. James Matthew Radford, II’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.2d 115 · 1971
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably The Canal Authority of the State of Florida v. Howard H. Callaway, Secretary of the United States Army, the Cross-Florida Canal Association v. Howard H. Callaway, Secretary of the United States Army, Eleanor H. Miller v. Avery S. Fullerton, Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, J. G. Perko v. The Canal Authority of the State of Florida, Etc. (1974), Southwest Airlines Co. v. Texas International Airlines, Inc. (1977)
39 federal appellate · 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. § 2283
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Woods Exploration & Producing Co. v. Aluminum Co. of America · Southern California Petroleum Corp. v. Harper · Jacksonville Blow Pipe Co. v. Reconstruction Finance Corp.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A temporary injunction is intended to be temporary, to meet the exigencies of the situation, and necessarily at times lacks the degree of precision which may be required on final decree.”
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.