Johnson v. Bax’s Empirical Analysis
63 F.3d 154 · 1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2016
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Cox v. State of Louisiana · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Cox v. State of New Hampshire · Boos v. Barry
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The government may regulate the use of [public forums] through appropriate, limited discretion, under properly drawn statutes or ordinances, concerning the time, place, duration, or manner of the use CT Page 12780 . . . but the government's limited discretion must be exercised uniformly and systematically so as not to create any unfair discrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“ha[d] no application to [the plaintiff's] cause of action, ... [because] the favorable termination of a criminal proceeding [wa]s not an essential element of an independent First Amendment claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`adjournment in contemplation of dismissal'”
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.