Johnson v. Silvers’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 823 · 1984
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2007 · most notably Neitzke v. Williams (1989), 161 Ill. 2d 200 - In Re CE (1994)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Harris v. Oklahoma
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“properly identified defendant ... required him to take anti-psychotic drugs without exercising professional judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a properly identified defendant, acting under color of state law, has effectively caused [him] to take anti-psychotic drugs against [his] will,” and that the defendant did not exercise”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Farabee v. Feix“the forcible administration of antipsychotic drugs presents a sufficiently analogous intrusion upon bodily security to give rise to such a protectible liberty interest.”
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.