Johnson v. McCuskey’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 1406 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Forrester v. White · Mireles v. Waco · Pulliam v. Allen · Antoine v. Byers & Anderson, Inc.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he amendment to § 1983 limits the type of relief available to plaintiffs who sue judges to declaratory relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Declaratory judgments are not meant simply to proclaim that one party is liable to another.”
1 later decision 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.