Johnson v. Bergland’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 993 · 1978
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Direx Israel, Ltd. v. Breakthrough Medical Corp. (1991), Cate v. Oldham (1983)
28 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 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 Elrod v. Burns · Blackwelder Furniture Co. of Statesville, Inc. v. Seilig Manufacturing Co. · American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. London & Edinburgh Insurance
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Violations of first amendment rights constitute per se irreparable injury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court may properly consider probability of success on the merits and should always take the public interest into account. However, the most important factors “are those of probable irreparable injury to plaintiff without a decree and of likely harm to the defendant with a decree. If that balance is struck in favor of plaintiff, it is enough that grave or serious questions are presented; and plaintiff need not show a likelihood of success.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'other than those of a confidential or policy-making character.'”
2 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.