Johnson v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Jubelirer v. Rendell (2008), In Re Initiative Petition No. 349, State Question No. 642 (1992)
25 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
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Flast v. Cohen · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · O'Shea v. Littleton · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be made by separate bills, each embracing but one subject.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“§ 57. Subjects and titlee-Revival or amendment by reference-Extent of invalidity . Every act of the Legislature shall embrace but one subject, which shall be clearly 'expressed in its title, except general appropriation bills, general revenue bills, and bills adopting a code, digest, or revision of statutes; and no law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred, by reference to its title only; but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred shall be re-enacted and published at length: Provided, That if any subject be embraced in any act contrary to the provisions of this section, such act shall be void only as to so much of the laws as may not be expressed in the title thereof.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Every act of the Legislature shall embrace but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title, except general appropriation bills, general revenue bills, and bills adopting a code, digest, or revision of statutes ... Provided, That if any subject be embraced in any act contrary to the provisions of this section, such act shall be void only as to so much of the law as may not be expressed in the title thereof.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.