Johnson v. Lehman’s Empirical Analysis
679 F.2d 918 · 1982
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 38 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Fischbach v. District of Columbia Department of Corrections (1996), Students Against Genocide v. Department of State (2001)
38 federal appellate · 38 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to follow its own regulations and procedures, alone, may not be sufficient to support”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“departure from internal hiring procedures is a factor that the trier of fact may deem probative”
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.