Johnson v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions

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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * In such situation where the issue of the appropriateness of the action as a class action has not been considered in the district court, ‘the better practice, for reasons of judicial economy, [is] for the appellate court to make such a determination on the basis of the record before it, rather than remanding for a decision on this question.’ Caldwell v. Craighead, 432 F.2d 213, 216 (6th Cir. 1970), cert. denied, 402 U.S. 953 , 91 S.Ct. 1617 , 29 L.Ed.2d 123 (1971). See also Locke v. Board of Public Instruction of Palm Beach County, 499 F.2d 359, 365 (5th Cir. 1974).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Murphy v. Hiniker

2. “interest in the continued payment of SSI benefits. See Board of Regents v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564 , 92 S.Ct. 2701, 33 L.Ed.2d 548 (1972); Perry v. Sinderman, 408 U.S. 593 , 92 S.Ct. 2694, 33 L.Ed.2d 570 (1972); Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 , 90 S.Ct. 1011, 25 L.Ed.2d 287 (1970). 11 The Supreme Court in Board of Regents v. Roth specified: 12”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tatum v. Mathews

3. “As with the Tucker Act, § 405(g) [the jurisdictional statute in the instant case] is only jurisdictional in nature and cannot itself constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity or confer the requisite substantive right. Such a waiver and right must be found, if at all, in the statutes creating the SSI program. 539 F.2d at 1123 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Aznavorian v. Califano