Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
576 F.2d 606 · 1978
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Littleton v. Good Samaritan Hospital & Health Center (1988), Durflinger v. Artiles (1983)
69 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2401 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Dalehite v. United States · Richards v. United States · Indian Towing Company 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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] party who has had one fair and full opportunity to prove a claim and has failed in that effort, should not be permitted to go to trial on the merits of that claim a second time. Both orderliness and reasonable time saving in judicial administration require that this be so unless some overriding consideration of fairness to a litigant dictates a different result in the circumstances of a particular case.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(U)nder federal principles a party who has had a full and fair opportunity to litigate an issue decided in a prior suit may be precluded from relitigating that issue in a subsequent action, even though the subsequent adversary was not a party to the prior litigation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The components and measure of damages in FTCA claims are taken from the law of the state where the tort occurred....”); Johnson v. United States, 576 F.2d 606, 610 (5th Cir.1978) ("In deciding cases under this Act the federal courts generally apply state law, since the Act directs the federal courts to decide liability ‘in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.’”
1 later decision 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.