Johnson v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
680 F.2d 39 · 1982
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Bowers v. DeVito (1982), Moore v. Marketplace Restaurant, Inc. (1985)
29 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 Baker v. McCollan · Powe v. City of Chicago · Atkins v. Lanning · Smith v. Gonzales · Hixon v. Sherwin-Williams Co.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an officer executing an arrest warrant must do so at peril of damage liability under section 1983 if there is any discrepancy between the description in the warrant and the appearance of the person to be arrested, many a criminal will slip away while the officer anxiously compares the description in the warrant with the appearance of the person named in it and radios back any discrepancies to his headquarters for instructions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fairley v. Zelenik · Kelly v. Jones“The conduct alleged ... is outrageous, but it is also fully actionable under state law. It is not actionable under section 1983 ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brewer v. Blackwell
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.