Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Wiederholt v. City of Minneapolis (1998), Drake v. Koss (2006)
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 38 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.
Relationships
Relies on Nieting v. Blondell · Cairl v. State · Nusbaum v. County of Blue Earth · Division of Corrections, Department of Health & Social Services v. Neakok · Bolyard ex rel. Bolyard v. Kansas Department of Social & Rehabilitation Services
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Statutory] immunity protects the government only when it can produce evidence its conduct was of a policy-making nature involving social, political, or economic considerations, rather than merely professional or scientific judgments.”
1 later decision 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.