United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
361 federal appellate · 95 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 758 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Boyle v. United Technologies Corp. (1988), United States v. Stanley (1987)
361 federal appellate · 95 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJohnson v. United States (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Feres v. United States · Dalehite v. United States · Parker v. Levy · Indian Towing Company v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States
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 758 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the distinctively federal nature of the relationship between the government and members of its armed forces, which argues against subjecting the government to liability based on the fortuity of the situs of the injury; (2) the availability of alternative compensation systems; and (3) the fear of damaging the military disciplinary structure.”
78 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“aris[ing] out of or in the course of activity incident to service,”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.