Johnson v. Moral’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.2d 846 · 1988
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Melear v. Spears (1989), United States v. Coffin (1996)
27 federal appellate · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Rochin v. People of California · Johnson v. Glick · Batson v. Kentucky · Lee v. Texas · Shillingford v. Holmes
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.
“No rule is more firmly settled in our circuit than that “no panel ... can overrule a decision previously made by another.” [Citation omitted.] A necessary corollary of that rule, and one equally as firmly established, is that should a later panel render a decision conflicting with that of an earlier one, it is the earlier decision which is to be followed and not the later.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)f the state officer’s action caused severe injuries, was grossly disproportionate to the need for action under the circumstances, and was inspired by malice rather than merely careless or unwise excess of zeal so that it amounted to an abuse of official power that shocks the conscience, it should be redressed under Section 1983. (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Brown v. Glossip
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.