Johnson v. Sikes’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 644 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Cheffer v. Reno (1995), Ia Durbin Inc v. Jefferson National Bank Aia (1986)
9 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1703 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Buckley v. Valeo · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations · Bates v. State Bar
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the hardship to the parties of withholding court consideration.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to prevent the courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The ripeness doctrine involves both jurisdictional limitations imposed by Article III's requirement of a case of controversy and prudential considerations arising from problems of prematurity and abstractness that may present insurmountable obstacles to the exercise of the court's jurisdiction, even though jurisdiction is technically present.”
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.