Johnston v. Holiday Inns, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 890 · 1979
Citation profile
288 federal appellate · 17 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 387 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably United States v. Valencia-Copete (1986), Keating v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1988)
288 federal appellate · 17 district · 15 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 Foman v. Davis · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Hormel v. Helvering · Newark Morning Ledger Company, a Corporation of the State of New Jersey v. The United States of America
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 387 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a gross miscarriage of justice would occur'”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so compelling as virtually to insure appellant's success.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is by now axiomatic that an issue not presented to the trial court cannot be raised for the first time on appeal.”
8 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.