John v. Barron’s Empirical Analysis

897 F.2d 1387 · 1990

Citation profile

112

cited by 112 later decisions

states following

August 2020

most recently cited

62 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Brokaw v. Mercer County (2000), Basf Corporation v. Old World Trading Company Incorporated (1994)

62 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Neitzke v. Williams · Carnegie v. United States · Stump v. Sparkman · Forrester v. White · Dennis v. Sparks

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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“contain the contentions of the appellant with respect to the issues presented, and the reasons therefor, with citations to the authorities, statutes and parts of the record relied on.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Dellenbach v. G Broglin Db · Kathleen Lueders v. St. Francis Bank, Fsb
“An appellant must not only raise issues in his brief, he must present them in a professional fashion. This court is not obligated to research and construct legal arguments open to parties, especially when they are represented by counsel as in this case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. John Doe v. Rausch · Nutrasweet Company v. X-L Engineering Company
“plainly requires more than a one page argument unsupported by any authority. An appellant must not only raise issues in his brief, he must present them in a professional fashion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Gallermo v. Citicorp North America Inc · First Home Savings Association, and Paul Javarras and Kailash Prassad, Intervening v. Sylvia L. Williams, Formerly Known as Sylvia L. Moore

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.