Johnson v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
701 F.2d 753 · 1983
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Kostelec v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. (1995), A.B. Dick Company, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Burroughs Corporation, Appellee/cross-Appellant (1986)
25 federal appellate ·
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 Cole v. United States · Cardwell v. Workman · Skogen v. The Dow Chemical Company · Leathers v. United States · Fulton v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he term [available] takes into consideration that a treating physician is likely to be more sympathetic to his patient's case and would naturally tend to testify in his patient's favor if at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shultz v. Rice
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.