Johnson v. Williford’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 1279 · 1987
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably El Sullivan v. L Clark (1993), Sullivan v. Freeman (1991)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Morton v. Mancari · Posadas v. National City Bank · Story v. Rives · Bonds v. Coca-Cola Co. · Cosgrove v. Smith
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“convicted in the District of Columbia of crimes.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he 'same power and authority' language of Sec. 24-209 enables the U.S. Commission to make the parole-release determination for D.C.Code offenders housed in federal prisons but requires that body to employ D.C. laws and regulations in making such decisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Luther“) held in federal prisons, but under that statute must apply District of Columbia parole laws and regulations when making such determinations. Act of June 5, 1934, ch. 391, 48 Stat. 880 (codified at D.C.Code Sec. 24-209). Petitioner David S. Ashby-Bey (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ashby-Bey v. Meese
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.