Johnson v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 1276 · 1982
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Busby v. City of Orlando (1991), Alexander v. Fulton County (2000)
91 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Lavender v. Kurn · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. · New Yorker Magazine, Inc. v. Gerosa
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“left with a substantial and ineradicable doubt as to whether the jury was properly guided in its deliberations.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the instructions, taken together, properly express the law applicable to the case, there is no error even though an isolated clause may be inaccurate, ambiguous, incomplete or otherwise subject to criticism.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'if there is substantial evidence opposed to the motions, that is, evidence of such quality and weight that reasonable and fair-minded men in the exercise of impartial judgment might reach different conclusions....'”
3 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.