Johnson v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 1396 · 1986
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Buckey v. County of Los Angeles (1992), Torres v. Superintendent of the Police of Puerto Rico (1990)
40 federal appellate · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Daniels v. Williams · Paul v. Davis · Baker v. McCollan · Rochin v. People of California · Davidson v. Cannon
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Due Process Clause does not, by its own force, extend individuals a right to be free of injury wherever a state is characterized as the tortfeasor. The Fourteenth Amendment is not a 'font of tort law to be superimposed upon whatever systems may already be administered by the States.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]amage to reputation, standing alone, cannot state a claim for relief under section 1983 because reputation is neither 'liberty' nor 'property' guaranteed against state deprivation without due process of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'offend[s] those canons of decency and fairness which express the notions of justice of English speaking peoples even toward those charged with the most heinous offenses.'”
2 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.