Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.2d 632 · 1977
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2002
18 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Fitzgerald v. United States Civil Service Commission
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.
“(i)n any action or proceeding under this subchapter (i. e., Title VII) * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We conclude that the district court properly took into consideration the attorney's services in the agency proceeding. In a sense, this remanded administrative proceeding was ancillary to [the plaintiff's] initial action in the district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“were part and parcel of the same litigation for which an attorney's fee is now sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. Califano
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.