Johnson v. Williford’s Empirical Analysis
682 F.2d 868 · 1982
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Watkins v. United States Army (1989), Vega v. United States (2007)
47 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 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 Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Schweiker v. Hansen · Muniz v. Hoffman · Moser v. United States · United States v. Georgia-Pacific 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the party to be estopped must know the facts; (2) he must intend that his conduct shall be acted upon or must act so that the party asserting the estoppel has a right to believe it is so intended; (3) the party asserting the estoppel must be ignorant of the facts; and (4) that party must rely on the former’s conduct to his injury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“' "where justice and fair play require it,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he government’s wrongful conduct must threaten 'to work a serious injustice’ and the public’s interest must not 'be unduly damaged by the imposition of estoppel.’”
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.