860 F. Supp. 344 - Johnson v. City of Dallas’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2019
6 federal appellate · 2 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 City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Shapiro v. Thompson · Albright v. Oliver
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“resisting the need to eat, sleep or engage in other life-sustaining activities is impossible. Avoiding public places when engaging in this otherwise innocent conduct is also impossible. ... As long as the homeless plaintiffs do not have a single place where they can lawfully be, the challenged ordinances, as applied to them, effectively punish them for something for which they may not be convicted under the [E]ighth [A]mendment - sleeping, eating and other innocent conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“sleeping in public ordinance as applied against the homeless is unconstitutional”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.