Johnson v. Riveland’s Empirical Analysis
855 F.2d 1477 · 1988
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably McClendon v. City of Albuquerque (1996), Vasquez v. Cooper (1988)
18 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Steffel v. Thompson · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Weinstein v. Bradford · Bibby v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal courts are without authority to decide questions that cannot affect the rights of litigants in the case before them.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“has already served the minimum sentence as com[p]uted and has not shown any direct or collateral consequences that will survive his release on parole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nullification of a conviction may have important benefits for a defendant ... but urging in a habeas corpus proceeding the correction of a sentence already served is another matter.”
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.