Johnson v. Boyd-Richardson Co.’s Empirical Analysis
650 F.2d 147 · 1981
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Wright v. Collins (1985), United States v. Schronce (1984)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Costello v. United States · Hughes v. United States · Industrial Building Materials, Inc. v. Interchemical Corp. · Boazman v. Economics Laboratory, Inc. · Holt v. Pitts
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a dismissal is for 'lack of jurisdiction,' the effect is not an adjudication on the merits, and therefore the res judicata bar does not arise.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a civilized system of justice, the norm should be to decide claims on their merits, and the mere inaction of a party or his lawyer should not result in the loss of a hypothetically meritorious claim, except in those limited instances, see e.g., Fed.RXiv.P. 37, where clear notice is given in advance that a certain procedural default will or might result in loss of a claim or defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. Collins“encompassing those dismissals which are based on a plaintiff's failure to comply with a precondition requisite to the Court's going forward to determine the merits of his substantive claim.”
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.