Barnhill v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
322 federal appellate · 125 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,624 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Ratzlaf et Ux United States (1994), Nobelman v. American Savings Bank (1993)
322 federal appellate · 125 district · 22 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
reviewedJohnson v. Barnhill (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Butner v. United States · Toibb v. Radloff · Union Bank v. Wolas · Morgan v. United States
Cited together with Butner v. United States · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Begier v. Internal Revenue Service · United States v. Whiting Pools, Inc.
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 1,624 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of any controlling federal law, 'property' and 'interests in property' are creatures of state law.”
109 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'when [a transfer] is complete' is a matter of federal law.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“appeals to statutory history are well-taken only to resolve statutory ambiguity”
7 later decisions 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.