Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 1431 · 1983
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 19 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Dreier v. United States (1996), Atkinson v. United States (1987)
60 federal appellate · 19 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Feres v. United States · United States v. Muniz · United States v. Brown · Brooks v. United States
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Johnson was not subject in any real way to the compulsion of military orders or performing any sort of military mission,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]e was thus in the same situation as the serviceman in Brooks--only in the remotest sense subject to military discipline.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the most persuasive justification for the Feres doctrine is the potential impact of civil suits on military discipline,”
4 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.