Johnson v. Chafee’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.2d 1216 · 1972
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2005
11 federal appellate · 2 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 10 U.S.C. § 509 · 10 U.S.C. § 936
Relies on Clews v. Jamieson · Smith v. Resor · Hammond v. Lenfest · Nixon v. Secretary of the Navy
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The agreement in question ... was valid from the moment Johnson signed his name . .. and swore to his loyalty oath before the warrant officer. Even if Johnson had neglected entirely to take his oath, his signature would have sufficed to bind 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.